Public people, private lives, and Tiger Woods

[Alex]

I agree in this way:

Once you put yourself out there as a public figure you have to expect you're going to lose control of your privacy and that the demands of the public to invade that privacy don't really know any bounds.

That, of course, is not the same thing as saying we have a right to know about his infidelities or that our collective demand to know is reasonable or appropriate. Or that he has an obligation to abandon any attempt to maintain his privacy.

That said, Michael Jordan was quite the philanderer. It doesn't seem to have damaged his spokesperson career to any great extent.