Golfweek Uses Lynching Comment to Sell Mags

Awful Announcing found this 1/17/2008 on www.sportingnews.com [flag]

First, the background info. As you've surely seen by now, Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman made the horrible, inexcusable mistake of saying the following line about Tiger Woods last week: Tilghman apologized for her comment, owned up to the mistake and is paying the price in the form of a two-week suspension. So, let's move on and not continue to make light of her extremely offensive blunder. Or ... [link]

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Golfweek Takes Kelly Tilghman Comments To A New Low
Published 1/17/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
I don't even have the words to describe the ridiculousness of this cover that the publication Golfweek has decided to publish for the week of January 19th. Just look for yourself (From The Sporting Blog) ...

'Golfweek' Goes Tabloid With Swinging Noose Image; Tim Finchem Not Happy
Published 1/17/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... an appropriate conclusion." It'd be hypocritical of me to criticize Golfweek for using shock value to generate sales, but a week and a half after the incident to an issue that was bad for golf this cover is in poor taste. Time to heed Tiger Woods' advice -- it's a non-issue (now -- it wasn't then), lets let it go. Finchem rips noose image in 'Golfweek' as 'tabloid' [USA Today] Golfweek Uses Lynching Comment to Sell Mags [Sporting Blog]

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Canadian writer argues that Golfweek Magazine's cover image is worse than what inspired it: Kelly Tilghan's comment on The Golf Channel about Tiger Woods. Someone at Golfweek Magazine should get fired over this. There is no question that the motive here was to sell magazines based of the controversy and that end result was put ahead of everything else.

Golfweek Takes Kelly Tilghman Comments To A New Low

One More Dying Quail found this 1/18/2008 on awfulannouncing.blogspot.com

I don't even have the words to describe the ridiculousness of this cover that the publication Golfweek has decided to publish for the week of January 19th. Just look for yourself (From The Sporting Blog ) No that's not a photoshop....that's the ...

Cover ideas inspired by Golfweek's 'noose issue'
People are saying the cover of the Jan. 19 issue of Golfweek -- a noose, nobody in it -- is out-of-bounds, an over-the-top way to illustrate a two-week-old news story about Kelly Tilghman's "lynch" remark regarding Tiger Woods. Tim Finchem didn't like ...

Editor surprised by 'enormity' of reaction to noose
The editor of Golfweek magazine said he was overwhelmed by negative reaction to the photo of a noose on the cover of this week's issue, illustrating a story about the suspension of a Golf Channel anchor for using the word "lynch" in an on-air ...

Golfweek surprised by reaction to noose cover
(AP) -- The editor of Golfweek magazine said he was overwhelmed by negative reaction to the photo of a noose on the cover of this week's issue, illustrating a story about the suspension of a Golf Channel anchor for using the word "lynch" in an on-air ...

Golfweek cover gives 'lynch' Tiger story new life
Kelly Tilghman's remarks about Tiger were bad enough, but Golfweek made it worse, Kevin Hench says.

NO EXCUSE FOR GOLFWEEK COVER
I CAN excuse Kelly Tilghman. She made a mistake. That's all it was in my opinion: a mistake. When the Golf Channel anchor said in a moment of attempted humor, "lynch him in a back alley," in reference to Tiger Woods, it was a mistake. A horribly...