The Michael Phelps Story

The story broke in the British tabloid, News of the World.  Apparently they broke all their previous records for page views.  (If you are going to click on this link, be careful.  The News of the World puts the oy! in tabloid.)

The story was then picked up by the MsM (the main stream media); for instance, the Washington Post.  Readers posting comments to the story generally believed that what Phelps did was not so awful, although many did feel that Phelps was failing to live up to his role-model status.

Forbes, a reputable business magazine, believed that the incident would not do a great deal of harm to Phelps's marketing possibilities (while noting that he had not been too successful in that arena, anyway.

Phelps will, no doubt, be subject of many jokes and much ridicule, such as this column in the San Jose (California) Mercury-News.