Even in Penitence, Tiger Woods Keeps News Media at Bay – NYTimes.com

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Mea Culpa, at Arm’s Length

Tiger Woods’s public apologia was the latest installment in his love/hate relationship with the media. But even then he managed to enforce Tiger Rules.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

“Doing a story on him was not an enjoyable journalistic experience, to say the least,” Mr. Tannenbaum said by phone. “The thing that it most reminded me of was the few times when I have had an assignment in Eastern European countries, and it was almost as if an attaché from Moscow had been assigned to me.”

Last Friday, even though there was seemingly much to discuss, Mr. Woods took no questions. Mr. Diaz and the rest of the news media that attended were parked a mile away in a Marriott hotel, watching a video feed.