Tiger Woods Word Cloud

By: Clifden Kennedy
Topics: In The News

Golfer Tiger Woods had a lot to say today, in his first public appearance since his car accident last November.

Watch Tiger Woods' Statement

CBSNEWS.com ran his public statement today through a word cloud generator at http://www.wordle.net/to see which words were most frequently used in his statement.

The words, "people," "want," "Elin," and "behavior" pop in the word cloud.

Photos: Tiger Apologizes

Perhaps the single most important thing that Tiger said today was "I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior."

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But that doesn't show up prominently in the world-cloud. It's in the lower right corner.

What's more important? What you say? Or how often you say it?

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by joetheplumbers February 20, 2010 3:49 PM EST: I can't diss the Media without Dissing this web site as well though. This is what 24/7 news is. The media doesn't finally get into the **** that concerns people or matters to people. They just go deeper into the ******** that doesn't matter.

Ben Roethlisberger had ESPN's upper management sending word down to not do the story when he raped a *****. The Media just knows that it will never be able catch Tiger breaking the law so they made something big out of the smallest thing they could find; Reply to this comment


by joetheplumbers February 20, 2010 3:48 PM EST: It?s not just that its not their business. They do it to. I bet Peyton Manning is knee deep in some ***** right now and he doesn't know her name. This is why the Indians said the white man talks with a forked tongue. If they sin and kill in the name of America its good and patriotic. Somebody else does it then its evil and the bad. They protest Vick, Bonds and Tiger. Do you think Barry Bonds could come back to baseball like Mark McGuire did with no protest? Their protesting Woods at golf patches already. white people become uppedy and like to act like their better than they really. That?s just what they do. The media is also playing to white Americas black hate for ratings as well. They know as long as Glenn Beck has the highest ratings there is a targeted audience that will love to see the media lynch a minority. Floyd Landis broke the law by hacking computers but that?s not a story. Where?s Nancy Grace on that ****!!! She got Tiger a traffic ticket though. They can?t do white people like this because they would have hung themselves. White politicians do something and they show us Kanye and Serena Williams. Who are Athletes being compared to politicians. White Politicians cheat and they show us more Tiger Woods than the politician. Black entertainers and atletes vs. white politicians.; Reply to this comment


by karenborrego February 19, 2010 9:55 PM EST: I am disappointed that so much time was spent on Tiger Woods's apology. There are many other important issues facing us - one senator holding up so many government appointments for personal pork barrel projects, the increasing dysfunction of the federal government, the continuing outrageous behavior of the Republican party (the party of "NO" except when it's an invitation to hold their convention in Hawaii after excoriating President Obama for vacationing there, in his childhood home.)

Please consider the real issues of the day when allocating your newstime (which is rapidly losing ground to the time spent on commercials and the time spent on your telling us what's coming after the upcoming commercials.)

Please choose your topics more wisely. We need news people to help us understand the important issues, not waste our time. We miss Walter Cronkite.

Karen DeLorenzo; Reply to this comment

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