The Curious Case of Tiger Woods: Austin Lee

When I was little, my world revolved around Sesame Street.  I would watch every afternoon as Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, Bert, Ernie, and the other characters would teach me letters, numbers, how to count, and how to share.  Some of the songs I learned over 20 years ago still stick in my head.
 
One of those songs was sung by Cookie Monster.  Cookie Monster, a big blue furry puppet with a fondness for cookies, would have a group of four items on his plate and would sing, “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn’t belong.”
 
So, let’s play the Cookie Monster game together, (With sincere apologies to Jim Henson.):
 
* John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
* Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. 
* Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968.
* Tiger Woods was in a minor car accident in his driveway on November 27, 2009.
 
Obviously, the media coverage of the first three events was monumental, and rightly so.  These were important political figures that helped to change our nation and shaped the way we approach our fellow man.  Questions over the who, what, when, where, and why swirled in the news for days and in one case people still wonder what really happened on the grassy knoll.
 
Somehow the media has lost its way in terms of reporting what is really important.  Each day men and women die in Darfur from genocide, Afghanistan and Iraq from war, and across the world children are sold into sexual slavery.  With all of this happening, the media decides that the most important thing to cover is a fender bender in a gated community in Florida.
 
Someone needs to tell the news media to watch a few episodes of Sesame Street so they can get back to work on the things that matter.

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