Golf Magazine editor fired over cover
OK, for those that haven’t heard about Golf Cannel’s Kelly Tilghman getting suspended for saying, well, here’s the link, but basically saying Tiger Woods is so good other golfers are going to resort to lynching him in a back alley, you know, because they can’t beat him. As expected, it caused a racial fervor despite Tiger Woods saying it’s a non-issue, but Al Sharpton took great offense and called for Tilghman’s firing. Golfweek decided to cover the ruckus. Editor Dave Seanor ran this cover concerning the issue. Considering the outrage over the laughing comment, the stark image of noose and the phrase “Caught in a Noose” should perhaps have been, well, caught, and rethought, but it wasn’t, and now Seanor’s out of a job, and probably permanently maligned. It’s odd. Political correctness is fine and dandy, and this definitely toes the line, but I think this is an overreaction, mainly, because the person that was actually being joked about could really care less, he can take a dumb joke. It is all too Fahrenheit 451… That’s all. Anyone else at least question the decision to fire Seanor, or the pending decision to fire Kelly Tilghman? Or is that the proper reaction? Anyone?