According to a recent blog post on the Tiger Woods saga, “the reports you are reading on TMZ and RadarOnline are about 30% accurate at best.” Tiger and Elin Woods aren’t moving towards divorce, Arnold Palmer is trying to help Tiger patch up his marriage, and Tiger hasn’t appeared in public since the incident in November because his face was damaged and he needed plastic surgery. Revealing? Maybe. But just as surprising is the person who posted the account — 91-year-old retired sportswriting great Furman Bisher — and his response to the 43,000+ hits the blog post has gotten: surprise and annoyance.

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The new year is as good a time as any for the Obama administration to rework the current media narrative on their policies. And as we’ve learned over and over again in politics, repetition is key, especially when it comes to language. And so now, the Obama administration is pushing a new term, currently building buzz, and bound to be heard incessantly in the coming days and weeks: “hard pivot.” But is it an admission of failure?

Gawker stepped over the line with their Bloodcopy campaign, where they were not only guilty of blurring the line between advertisements and editorial but of nearly erasing it altogether. And yet, the entire controversy made Bloodcopy one of the most successful ad campaigns Gawker ever ran.