I went to a major news site and the headline screamed out.
The breaking news is done. According to reports, Tom Brady and Gisele Bndchen will file for divorce today.
There was a slideshow of photos of the couple over time.
This item was given a lot more attention than other breaking news reports.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked with a hammer.
The political and economic crisis in the UK could be a sign of worse news to come.
Inflation and rising energy costs are forcing working and middle-class Americans to sacrifice on needed staple items.
The United States is seeing a rise in crime.
Rationalizing that the headline was elevated to major headline status is a possibility. It is not possible to say yes. An answer like that would be dishonest.
The governor and the quarterback are texting each other. They are not discussing it.
Brady was silent on tampering and everything else.
The Tom Brady and Gisele Bndchen saga has been covered by almost every news site in the world for the last several weeks.
The personal pain the couple is experiencing has proven to be a major click bait producer.
Others might be tempted to say, "Well, they're public figures so this is the price they pay." with regard to Tom Brady and Gisle Bndchen's lives being placed under the most powerful lens of a microscope.
Common decency and compassion come into play if that is the metric to be used.
Brady and Bndchen are both human beings with feelings.
Even though he said, she said, that expectation, hope, and dream has come crashing down on them.
When a crash happens, the ripples of pain are felt by everyone.
How are the children of Tom Brady and Gisele Bndchen handling their parents' troubles?
Those children, along with the parents and siblings who love them, become collateral emotional damage due to the indiscriminate red hot spotlight trained on the power couple.
Many in the sporting world have commented thatBrady looks ill, or thatBrady has lost so much weight, or thatBrady looks like he's lost a lot of weight
I don't know what to think.
The mental and physical toll of a break-up or divorce can be punishing and can take months or even years to get over.
Tom Brady and Gisele Bndchen's privacy has been taken away. They weren't entitled to it, others said.
They have to deal with a traumatic personal issue, but also have to experience it as unwilling participants forced into a media machine seem not interested in the hurt, confusion, despair, and grieving process the couple must navigate.
At some point, power couples, public figures, and celebrities are entitled to privacy.
Brady and Bndchen are at that point.
The author of the book is a former White House and Pentagon official.
The column on the Palm Beach Post was about the Tom Brady and Gisele Bndchen divorce.
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