Citing sources it doesn't identify, Radar is reporting today that troubled golfer Tiger Woods (left) is being treated at a "top sex addiction program" in Mississippi's Hattiesburg, home to Gannett's American newspaper. The website identified the clinic as Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services. A Gannett Blog reader, Anonymous@11:34 a.m., asks today: "Anyone left in Hattiesburg to cover this?"Radar's story follows by three days an earlier report that Woods was being treated at a different clinic, in Arizona's Wickenburg, according to The Huffington Post. That's about 60 miles northwest of Phoenix, home to Gannett's Arizona Republic.
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the local tv station, WDAM, has something on the website about the rumor. Myhattiesburg.com, a community site, posted the rumor last night. Nothing, though, in the Gannett paper. Doesn't surprise me.
ReplyDeleteActually, the American now has a short staff-wire account, where it appears the clinic told the paper that it couldn't confirm or deny the Radar report.
ReplyDeletehttp://www2.wjtv.com/jtv/video/detail/8345dce0-5353-102d-a6fd-001ec92a4a0d/86556
ReplyDeleteFunny how a Jackson, MS TV station could get a video up, but the HA, located just a hop skip and jump away, could not.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20100119/OPINION01/1190302/1014/opinion/Does-Tiger-deserve-some-privacy
ReplyDeleteI think it's really great everytime a news organization let's readers know why they do what they do.