The previous post linked to a NY Times piece on why we need the lessons of Tiger Woods and his failures.

Yesterday was the opening round of the Masters golf tournament in Georgia. Tiger Woods is back. It led the top of every newscast I heard on the radio… all day long.

Meanwhile, four miners are unaccounted for in the West Virginia mine collapse. A tragedy that has already killed 25 men.

Meanwhile, President Obama was in Europe signing nuclear arms reduction treaties with Russia.

And we were busy covering a guy hitting a little white ball down a fairway.

Here is why Tiger Woods does not need to change his own personal life: We still worship him like a god.

It is my hope and prayer he is more internally motivated for change in his life. It is my prayer he deeply cares about the wrong he has done to his family and loves them so much he will get things right. That’s the only hope, because the public sure doesn’t care. We just want him back on that golf course hitting that little white ball.

So, in that sense, for our own public conscience, this is why Tiger does NOT matter. We’ve lost sight of what is important. Important for him. Important in our world.