I turned off a news feature on Tiger Woods on a major news channel last week to play some Xbox. As the Xbox dashboard booted up I noticed a panel that was a link to another Msnbc report on Tiger Woods. Overkill is great for Modern Warfare 2 but not for some celebrity's life. I mean come on people there are other things going on in the world.
The report on Xbox Live was no so much on Tiger but on the random woman who was being payed by Msnbc to tell the story related to text messages she saved on her phone. The messages were supposedly between herself and Woods. I don't care. We don't need this much information on the mistakes of one celebrity. Why did I check out the story? Because pop journalism infiltrated my game console in the form of a train wreck I could not look away from.
Please, Microsoft, if you're going to give us random shock reports on celebrity high jinx then give us some real news spots too. How about a well explained piece on proposed health care packages currently being debated in Congress. I challenge Msnbc to lay out the multiple sides of that argument in a down to earth manner.
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Absolutely! It's one thing for the Tiger story to dominate TMZ, but another thing for the Tiger story to blitz CNN, MSNBC, and even NPR. Help! I don't care if Tiger is a cheetah (great t-shirt, but...). I need news. Thanks for this.
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