I've got the tv on while I work most days. Jesse James headlines always come on about 10 minutes into the average Inside Edition. Tiger always leads.
John Edwards is forgotten. Why did Garcelle compare her husband to Tiger & Jesse, and not Letterman and James, or Edwards and James? Because Tiger is the story that sells. Better than Jesse James, better than John Edwards, better than any of them.
It's like OJ. How many famous people have actually been proven to have killed people since him? Nobody cares. OJ is what people reference when they want to make a murder analogy.
The Black Villain is always more interesting to American audiences.
...and @ Lippy, I do see your point about why things get talked about here, but it's not just here. In the media at large, Tiger is the biggest cheating story out there. He had many mistresses, but apparently so did Jesse James, and still Tiger gets top billing, despite the extra nazi stuff in the Jesse James story, which *should* make it a hotter story.
People just prefer it when the bad guy is Black.