If he can stop Rachel Uchitel he has a chance.
As hard as Tiger Woods and Nike try to contain and control the spin on Woods' return to golf, the tighter the controls, the more rabid the media will become.
Woods will "speak to a small group of friends, colleagues and close associates," Friday morning at 10:00 central time, and
it will be carried live by every broadcast network with the possible exception of The Soap Opera Network.
Woods won't take any questions, won't
sort of.
Woods, who has spent his entire career carefully shaping his image while restricting personal access, has announced that he will will meet with
some members of the press.
On Friday Woods will meet with "small group of friends, colleagues and close associates" as well as hand-picked media members about his past transgressions.
Woods' agent says the golfer will end his three months of silence in front of selected representatives of
As you've probably already seen, there is a video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews on the web showing her in an advanced state of undress. Trips usually works the nudity beat around here, but Ripley asked me to write about it after Trips was stricken with a sudden and debilitating case of carpal tunnel syndrome.
The video was obviously obtained without her knowledge or consent, and it was filmed through a peephole in her hotel
As a big fan of non-fiction writing across all genres, from
John McPhee's takes on feats of civil engineering to
Paul Theroux's travelogues, a good biography on a notable historical figure is hard to beat. A recent article in the
New Yorker reviewed new biographies of four titans of 20th century media, starting with treatments on William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer's rival tabloid dailies in New York, then examining how Barney
