December 15, 2009

“If we’re determined to ignore the tragedy and embrace the spectacle, however, must we simultaneously pretend that this nosiness is our due as a member of the Gillette advertisement watching public? As though we’d have passed on the five-blade razor if only we’d known the spokesman’s dark secret? “His skin is smooth, sure, but unbeknowst to the razor executives he cheats on his wife at every opportunity. Ergo it’s Schick for me.”

– Conor Friedersdorf kills it re: the claim that Tiger Woods somehow forfeited his right to privacy by appearing in so many advertisements.