“Just another busy week for Tiger. Apple announced a partnership with Woods to promote the company’s new operating system. Then after Jesper Parnevik forgot to bring his clubs to Augusta (too weird to even make up), Tiger picks up the Swede’s clubs and delivers them. Now Tiger hopes to deliver a win to break his 0-for-10 major drought,” Mike McAllister writes for SI.com’s “Golf Power Rankings.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: (Sheepishly, scraping our toes in the dirt) Errr, that was an April Fools Joke article there, Mike. Sorry. You’d think that SI would be the last place fooled by our article – after all, we used the byline “Siddhartha Finch” as our giveaway clue!
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hardy haha
What they thought it was true? We wish.
LMAO! hehehehehe
TOOOOO funny.
I had to read it again. Just as funny the second time around. LOL LOL LOL. The editors and writers over at SI.com should know they need to verify facts before writing them.
Now, Apple is going to get sued by Tiger Woods b/c he hasn’t received a residual check. Then Apple will turn on MDN, take what little money the site makes and then shut the site down.
Sad. LOL.
Jocks
This really isn’t funny. The state of journalism today is deplorable. No one checks facts.
Let’s face it, sports is a multi-billion dollar business. These guys are serious journalists. This isn’t some group of fans in a basement talking about sports. To get fooled by an April Fools joke on a Mac fan website (no diss intended, I read MacDailyNews every day) is just beyond the pale. How can you report something like this and not do the most basic of fact checking?
I’m disgusted.
To jdb,
I teach Journalism at a small college, and what you say is totally true!
It makes me sick!
The sad is that a quick trip to apple.com/pr would show there’s no news of the sort. It didn’t even require a phone call for verification.
Google News even picked up the story the next day as a main listing under “Apple Computer”.
I’ve set the new News.Google site to include a section for “Apple Computer” and MDN now has two of the three listings displayed!!
teacher..
Just out of curiosity, I’d like to hear your take on the “journalism” which is displayed on Fox News ….
“Real” journalism….
or not ?
Hey, mac dood:
Fox News is better than the rest–bite me.
Oh, don’t even get me started on FauX News!
The journalists of Sports Illustrated get distracted by their swimwear models. Who cares if their reporting is not fact checked. Everyone buys their magazine for the pictures.
Heeeee… Hello!!!!!!
What if Apple actually decides to do what MDN thought up of?
I mean the release of Tiger is still a few weeks away.
Anything can happen.
A little prank can have devastating halo effects. Some teenage kids put a green snake in an old womans mailbox, figuring to scare her, not having her die of a heart attack.
Something obvious should have been put at or near the end of the article giving it away. It fooled me and I told a ton of people here at work who I’ve been working on switching. Why should they take me seriously or believe anything I say now about the awesomeness of Apple computer?
SI should have done the research and so should have I, but the fact is that most of us DON”T do it. I didn’t even have a thought it was April 1st, must less any April Fools Joke.
buncha jocks didn’t get the joke…what did you expect?
Georgy Porgy,
Perhaps you and “a ton of people” at your work did not read the whole story. Something obvious was in the story! It cleverly used the Siddhartha Finch by-line. Clearly it was a rookie researcher from SI who picked up the story as old timers and true SI fans would remember the infamous Sidd Finch. (The Buddhist pitcher)
Plus, anyone in Journalism, Media, and most of the public knows that “Sid Finch” is a famous April Fools joke story put out by SI itself, that’s what makes this so ironically funny!
I do understand your snake story, but this is not on the same level! Lighten up!
C’mon Georgy…I saw it on the internet so it must be true?
There was a link right on the page to the writer that gives it away, the responses were all saying it was a joke, it didn’t take too much to see this story for what it was. Don’t take things at face value, always do a little investigation yourself…especially for Fox news.
As for the SI writer that’s beyond sloppy journalism. Is it Sports Illustrated or the National Sports Enquirer?
No use just talking about it. DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY! The person who wrote the SI comment must be ferreted out and chastised. No longer can we sit back and take faulty, biased and erroneous news. The MDN article was clearly fake and anybody reading the feedback section would have grasped that. Also, on April 1st, you’ve got to at least think it’s a joke.
And note that as of late, Tiger Woods has been sucking at golf. He’s been suffering from injuries (as if golf was a demanding sport) that have been affecting his performance. I don’t think Apple wants this associated with their product.
SI has been in love with itself for years. All sport writers are jock sniffing hacks jealous of the egos of the athletes they cover. No part of the “news” business relies so much on fabrication as sports.
As for Fox, it is the only channel that ever mentions Senator Kerry”s recent (but getting stale) promise to sign that darn Form 180 so we can all find out about his dishonorable discharge, his reinstatement by Carter the traitor, and subsequent reawarding of medals when he entered the good old boy club of Congress. Other than that it sucks because the talking heads aren’t very good looking.
LOFL! Way to go, SI! I despise the mainstream media for the most part, so I love it when they fsck up and give the public a glimpse at how they really operate.
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Aaaaah, sweet revenge for taking me in with Sidd Finch all those years ago – if only George Plimpton had lived to see it.
Hahaha! Poop!