COMMENTS: Tuohy Trumps Tiger
NBC's closer contrasted the implied scandal surrounding Tiger Woods with the feel-good sports story of Michael Oher, the NFL rookie who plays for the Baltimore Ravens. Chris Jansing was assigned to tell us the tale of Leigh Anne Tuohy, "a superhero of a different kind, a wealthy woman who one freezing, fateful night spotted a teenage Michael Oher alone and brought him in from the cold." Except that the Los-Angeles-based Jansing was not really telling us the story of Oher and Tuohy—but of their movie biopic The Blind Side, Hollywood's unexpected box office hit. "Typically movies drop off significantly in the second week but The Blind Side was actually up 18%."
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