By Dan Hagen
I want to thank Notre Dame for
giving me a great classroom example today in Manti Te'o.
Last week, I was telling newswriting
students about the necessity of double-checking your facts, and triple-checking
your facts in an obit. The Te'o story shows the criminal incompetence of sports
reporting in the American corporate news media. They ran tons of silly sob
sister shit about a woman who NEVER EXISTED.
Corporate news operations employee
hundreds of people, and they simply TAKE SOME FOOTBALL PLAYER'S WORD that a person is DEAD? Bullshit.
Nor do I believe Notre Dame's explanation for one single damn minute. Yeah, Te'o was the "victim of a
hoax." Sure. Right. He's one of those many people we know whose great,
true love is a person he has never met.
And the story is STILL being
reported incompetently this morning. The corporate media is simply swallowing
and regurgitating Notre Dame's self-serving lies.
If even the most obvious, easily
verified story in the corporate news media is a blatant lie, we must ask what
OTHER corporate media stories are also based on lies?
As John Kass advised, “When your
girlfriend dying of leukemia after suffering a car crash tells you she loves
you — even if it might help you win the Heisman Trophy — you check it out.”
I do have a suggested Lifetime
movie title for Te’o, though: "Not Without My Tragically Dead Nonexistent
Girlfriend."
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