Dubliner gets a rough ride in the American press
A raging Tiger Woods let rip on Tuesday after photographs with the face of his wife Elin, 26, superimposed on a semi-naked woman appeared in listings magazine The Dubliner.
Woods said he was disappointed with the way the article was written. His wife had once been a model and did some bikini photos.
Yesterday, the fallout made headlines across the US and Canada. And, in an unusual move, Eason took the decision to remove all copies of the magazine from its shelves following dozens of complaints from customers.
“Blarney Retracted” read Canada’s Vancouver Sun after the Dubliner issued an apology for a the article.
“Tiger not happy with his wife’s Irish ‘pub’,” said the gag-happy headline writers at the Springfield State Journal Register in Illinois.
Warming to the theme, the San Francisco Chronicle gets in with: “Tiger gets his Irish up over tabloid’s fake photos of wife.” North America’s most syndicated columnists were also guilty of reaching for their book of clichés. Associated Press sports writer Tim Dahlberg teed off his column in a huff over the Dubliner’s “Ryder Cup filth for Ireland” headline on the bogus porn pictures story. Dahlberg whined: “Some humour. Probably sounded awfully funny when the magazine’s editor and his buddies were planning it down at Blarney’s corner pub.” Ouch!
And here’s another one: “Turns out Woods loves the Irish but not their national drink.”
“Guinness,” he tells his readers knowingly, “is so prevalent here it seems even babies are weaned on it.”Fox News’ Mike Straka, writing on the “We Report You Decide” broadcaster’s website, got stuck where American journalists often do when criticising foreign media: the ethics bunker.
In his “Grrr!” column, Mr Straka lashes the Dubliner article’s writer, saying: “I’m sure that if this is the type of column you write on a regular basis, you and your bosses at the Dubliner are well aware of (the libel laws).
“And while the Grrr! column has taken its fair share of shots at the rich and powerful, we do try to make sure what we’re ‘Grrring’ about is actually true! It’s called ethics.”
Alas, ethics and Fox News (motto: We Report You Decide) don’t always make the easiest of bedfellows when it comes to the partisan broadcaster’s unflinching support for Bush’s War on Terror, for instance.
The New York Times took the worthy line instead, burying the fake pictures story under the headline: “Lehman’s Difficult Rise Stirs US Ryder Cup Team,” adding that Woods was disappointed over the Dubliner’s story.
Washington’s News Tribune, though, came up with the best if off-the-mark headline: “Angry Tiger goes to bat for his wife”
Golf’s a lot of things at the K Club and, even if rain has stopped play, cricket it ain’t.
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