by Kampfy1
This is one of the best articles I've read at this site in a long long time. I'm very impressed with the approach you've taken and delivered against.
It is so incredibly sad to see someone waste away like this.
I wonder if the media really could give someone a break once and a while too. As much as I love the Brits, you're right about them as well. They do seem to love pointing out American flaws before they look at themselves.
Thank you for a great read.

by ronmon
The answer: none. Put the blame squarely on the greed of the Wie family, their failure to properly restrain their daughter's impulse to speed the whole process up, and a need for acceptance at a variety of competitive levels. What is her competitive record? How many victories before or after that fateful USGA Public Links took place? While you're at it, blame Nike, too. They invested too much, too early. Rather than build on their success with a 20-year old Tiger, they jumped the gun on a 17-year old kid and have paid the price.

by David
This 17 year old girl is suffering a drop in form due in no small part to having to deal with her first serious injury and while in this unknown territory she is being bullied and attacked from all quarters by the media. Personally I think it's disgusting and another sad example of the 'build 'em and and knock 'em down' mentality that the media so cruelly propagate.
BTW The Telegraph is a world respected broadsheet newspaper and is nothing like the tabloid gutter press that you are bundling it in with.

by tim
I understand that, and you're right -- I did give that mistaken impression, but the basic premise holds -- a British journalist criticizing the American media, though it certainly deserves to be criticized in many respects, is a trifle hilarious, given that country's media excesses.
Even if he does work for the Telegraph, and even if his sentences aren't as awkward as the above.