Just Shut Up About Tiger Woods Please

I only feel guilty about this specific subject matter because someone is getting yet even more public attention through my current post and that is exactly what I advocate stops immediately for an undefined period of time.

So my message to the world today: “Just shut up puh-leeze and no more mention of Tiger Woods for awhile – by anyone.”

Give it a break (Rush Limbaugh and all others who work in mass media.) I do not want to hear or read these two words “Tiger Woods" any time before at least the conclusion of the third round (June 16) of this year’s U.S. Open and only then if he is in contention to possibly win the event. The lone exception is if he wins a golf tournament prior to the conclusion of the U.S. Open’s third round.

I mean he’s a talented athlete, but give it a rest. There are so many more important stories and subject matters than TW, the golfer. Also throw in there please for good measure omitting any more public references to Lindsay Lohan and Justin Bieber for awhile.

Let’s instead hear and read about some real difference-makers in our community. Let’s get the media’s focus back on “LOCAL STORIES OF OUR INTEREST!” --- meaning something more than who got shot, who got robbed and the latest fatal motor vehicle crash. There are just so many more people, places, subject matters and items of local interest. Let’s you and I dictate that the media agenda change now, so that means no more sports talk radio for me when golf comes up as a subject. It also means if I think someone is going to mention TW, LH and JB – I’m down and gone Brother! Mark me as 10-3 (stop transmitting).

That’s it --- messages and blogs can be more powerful when kept brief.