This article is about the steady downfall of Tiger Woods’ life and
popularity. The incidents in which he was involved in were something that was
incredibly hard to cover up. He crashed his car, put up a façade of having a
loving marriage, slept with numerous women, and was linked to a controversial
sports doctor. You could say his life was going nowhere faster than he crashed
his car. “It is the greatest single fall in popularity on a non-politician in
the history of public opinion surveys: a drop in approval from 87% in 2005 to
33%.” (Bissinger, 2010, para. 4).
One of the main reasons fans were so appalled was due to the fact that he
was a mysterious entity. No one knew anything about his personal life. He never
took a stance on topics and never wanted to ruffle feathers. There was an air
of mystery about him that no one could ever penetrate.
When he was 21 years old in an interview with Charles Pierce who was
writing for GQ, he was inappropriate and made some perverted jokes. Bissinger
stated that was the most open and honest the world had ever seen Tiger (2010).
After that interview, we never saw that side of Tiger again. His entourage
never let him make that kind of mistake again.
While I don’t condone
what Tiger did, or cheating in general, I think that he was under a vast amount
of pressure. Again, nothing is ever an excuse for what he did but he was under
the public eye for so long and was pressured immensely to be someone who he
wasn’t. I think that anyone would crack under that kind of pressure.
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ReplyDeleteI do think that media in general puts a lot of pressure on celebrities. I think that more pressure was put on Tiger because he was considered a "perfect" person. In my opinion celebrities are put under a lot of pressure on a daily basis, that is the job of being a celebrity. Celebrities have to make certain sacrifices if they want to be put in the spot light. Dealing with pressure is something that they are going to have to deal with as long as they are "famous" or looked at by the media. What Tiger Woods did was not right at all. I think he was putting more pressure on himself and more drama in his life by making the mistake he did. Cheating is not right and will never be right.
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I agree that the media puts a lot of pressure on athletes. But that is part of being an athlete and how to handle it. I think every athlete and celebrity has a second life. Many star athletes have had there other life made public and especially in todays age with social media it is easy to find out about athletes personal lives. We have seen this with many stars such as Michael Jordan with his gambling, Tiger Woods and his women, Kobe Bryant with his rape case, Ray Rice with hitting his wife, and many more instances. We see it all the time in sports and in todays culture things like this make the news more often then when athletes do something good. Once one of these incidents happen it is very hard for the athlete to redeem the respect they once had.
ReplyDeleteThe media sure puts a lot of pressure on celebrities, thus causing celebrities to hide their mistakes from the public. However, this is not an excuse for making mistakes. For Tiger Woods, he was portraying himself as a nice family man in front of the public, and he was seen as a role model to a lot of young people. It is his job as a celebrity to display decent behaviors. Tiger Woods had the choice not to cheat on his wife and sleep with other women, but he still made the choice to cheat on his wife and continue to portray his “family man” image to the public. In my opinion, Tiger Woods has to pay for what he did. Even for an ordinary man, cheating is still a huge mistake to make and even an ordinary man has pay for it. Therefore, there is no reason to blame the media for putting pressure on Tiger Woods.
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