Golf Channel anchor apologizes for 'lynch' remark

[DaemonSeid]

Dang it...I was hoping we could have made it to February or March before the public racial slurs (and ensuing apologies to keep one's job) began.....LOL


Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman has apologized after saying during Friday's telecast of the PGA Tour's opening event that today's young players should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley."

According to New York Newsday, a spokesman for the network said Tilghman apologized on Sunday's telecast and has reached out to Woods' representatives to express her regrets for the comments.

Tilghman, who played college golf at Duke, works as the main play-by-play announcer during The Golf Channel's PGA Tour telecasts.

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3186158

[DSTCHAOS]

No harm, no foul.

What's more interesting are the comments the readers put under that article and under the MSN article. Special people.

[macallan25]

I heard it live on TV during the broadcast of the tournament. Poor choice of words no doubt, but it was fairly obvious to me that she wasn't thinking and just blurted it right after Faldo said something along the lines of "somebody's got to take Tiger out..."

[PhiGam]

Not a big deal, obviously should have used a different word but I doubt there was any malicious intent behind it.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

Not a big deal, obviously should have used a different word but I doubt there was any malicious intent behind it.

Tiger's response: "Apology accepted, bitch."







this would work too....

[DSTCHAOS]

She was suspended for 2 weeks.

I think her comment was dumb and it's important for people to remember that there's a reason for a such thing as 'uncomfortable laughter" and "awkward silence."

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

She was suspended for 2 weeks.

I think her comment was dumb and it's important for people to remember that there's a reason for a such thing as 'uncomfortable laughter" and "awkward silence."

I want her sent to lynching rehab.

[macallan25]

Sharpton called for a boycott of the Golf Channel.

He didn't even know the anchor was a woman.

[DaemonSeid]

Ten days after a Golf Channel anchor was suspended for her use of "lynch" in commentary on Tiger Woods, an editor was fired Friday for illustrating the controversy with a noose on the cover of Golfweek magazine.

Dave Seanor, vice president and editor who took responsibility for the noose cover of the Jan. 19 issue, was replaced by Jeff Babineau.
"We apologize for creating this graphic cover that received extreme negative reaction from consumers, subscribers and advertisers across the country," Turnstile Publishing Co. president William J. Kupper Jr. said. "We were trying to convey the controversial issue with a strong and provocative graphic image. It is now obvious that the overall reaction to our cover deeply offended many people. For that, we are deeply apologetic."

Turnstile is the parent company of Golfweek, which has a circulation of about 160,000.

Golfweek removed its Jan. 19 issue from its booth at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla., while Babineau made the rounds on news talk shows to offer more apologies. The magazine also removed the cover from its Web site.

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem called the Golfweek cover "outrageous and irresponsible" and accused the magazine of tabloid journalism. He distanced himself from the firing of Seanor with a statement from the PGA Tour that Finchem merely was responding to an inquiry, and that his comments were not a "call to action."

Woods, out of public view for the last month, makes his 2008 debut on the PGA Tour next week at the Buick Invitational, where Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman returns from a two-week suspension.

Woods has not spoken publicly, although his agent said in a statement through Golf Channel last week that Woods and Tilghman are friends, and "we know unequivocally that there was no ill intent in her comments."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/..._editor_out_10

[squirrely girl]

wow it just gets better and better.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

"We were trying to convey the controversial issue with a strong and provocative graphic image."

Hi, you're GOLFWEEK, no one expects you to be creative or "provocative". Freakin' idiot.

[cuteASAbug]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Hi, you're GOLFWEEK, no one expects you to be creative or "provocative". Freakin' idiot.

Thank you for putting my thoughts quite so eloquently.

[PhiGam]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Sharpton called for a boycott of the Golf Channel.

He didn't even know the anchor was a woman.

I'm sure that people who like Al Sharpton make up a HUGE portion of the Golf Channel's viewers.

[PhiGam]

As a society we are far too sensitive to this kind of stuff... a picture of a noose shouldn't be that controversial.