Wow! You must have had a huge Fourthmeal to get 2 to 3 Courics out of it. Gotta wonder how many Courics a Warmack Mugshots trip would produce.
Deadspin is saying Te'o's girlfriend's death was a hoax created for publicity
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I believe he was duped too now. The issue is that he took his own liberties to make his online-only relationship seem more tangible and a better story for television. Regardless of whether he was embarrassed about having a pen pal he loved, he lied a good bit himself. The good doesn't wash away the bad nor the bad wash away the good.
Wow...hard to say which was shorter...ND's investigation of it or Manti's grieving period after his gf "died".
What a crock.
Someone posted this in the comments section of that article and I thought summed it up nicely...
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I still just wish the media would do their job for once.
Was he misled to a certain extent? Probably, but no one made him lie.
He could have covered things up fairly well without lying, instead he went the opposite route. He created details that obviously were never true, this was the love of his live, they were on the phone all night, they met, etc, etc, etc...
His own teammates knew he was exaggerating the relationship, and that's the most irritating thing of this. Not that he had a fake girlfriend, not even that he lied, but that he and the media went into this hugely unethical and blatantly false effort to create sympathy. He played through the adversity of his girlfriend dying, even if she wasn't really his girlfriend, and he wasn't really very upset, and she wasn't really the love of his life, and they never really met, and the media could find no proof she existed... nothing would stop that narrative, because neither the media nor Manti wanted it to stop.
Now, the narrative is he's the victim and for the most part the media is just steamrolling over the facts again to serve that narrative.
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I wonder how the media would react if it was uncovered that McCarron and Miss Webb's relationship was all for show? What if Katherine Webb simply agreed to a setup where she could use the national title game as a platform to enhance her career and AJ knew it wasn't a real relationship from the outset?
You think AJ would get skewered for it? I bet so.
You think AJ would get skewered for it? I bet so.
Once again...
Manti was not duped. His "bro" that he wants to come hang with him in Hawaii did not spend 4 years hoaxing him - spending hours of time chatting/texting/phoning/bringing in other actors for zero reason and/or gain. He also didn't pull people up to watch his interviews because "he got a kick out of it" when he was "mourning" the dead love of his life.
Manti was not duped. His "bro" that he wants to come hang with him in Hawaii did not spend 4 years hoaxing him - spending hours of time chatting/texting/phoning/bringing in other actors for zero reason and/or gain. He also didn't pull people up to watch his interviews because "he got a kick out of it" when he was "mourning" the dead love of his life.
Unfortunately the full truth will likely never come out, because pathological liars like Te'o always think they can just continue lying until they come out scott free on the other side & judging by how quick so many people are to believe them they're probably not that far wrong in thinking so.Deadspin said:
I've watched Katie Couric. Painful, at best.
Those two dim bulbs won't shed much illumination on the story.
She's a living example that looks can only carry you so far...
Of course the handlers of Manti, don't want a smart interviewer.
Katie will follow a preplanned outline, designed to make her and Manti look good. (IMPOSSIBLE)
I won't watch her interview.
PS: That's my sugar coated opinion.
Those two dim bulbs won't shed much illumination on the story.
She's a living example that looks can only carry you so far...
Of course the handlers of Manti, don't want a smart interviewer.
Katie will follow a preplanned outline, designed to make her and Manti look good. (IMPOSSIBLE)
I won't watch her interview.
PS: That's my sugar coated opinion.
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Exactly right. The media failed to exercise one of the most basic tenets of journalism.
It's not just sports media, either. It's true in every aspect of journalism, be it politics, foreign affairs, sports, pop culture, what have you.
When a gossip blog like Deadspin does a better job of checking facts and exploring sources' credibility, what does that tell you about the veracity of the stories you read/hear in today's mass media?
My History of Journalism 305 professor is rolling in his grave over this.
History itself is written by the journalists who cover the events of the time. If our journalists aren't exercising the simplest and most fundamental principles of their craft, it means the stories people read about us 50, 100 or 1,000 years hence will have a reliability level far below that of the Yellow Journalism of Pulitzer and Hearst, ca. 1900.
In fact, I believe that we've already sunk below that standard.
SIAP... Great article on the joke that is Notre Dame.
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-74107164/
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-74107164/
This is getting more far fetched than a movie...
http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?storyId=8864233
http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?storyId=8864233
Maybe this is what he was trying to link:
Now playing in the banana republic of South Bend: Te'o and the Lying Irish
My wife and I have talked about this whole drama pretty extensively trying to make sense of it. To us the only way it makes sense as to what transpired is to allow ourselves to consider that Teo and Tuisaopo were trying to remain "in the closet". If you are both in an environment where your preference would be frowned upon then it would seem convenient to conjure a fake personality (Lennay) to carry on a relationship through - create fake twitter and facebook accounts etc to provide cover for your relationship. If you are Teo, this was just a convenient front (or passport) to navigate your world. However, once he figured out that he could get some notoriety by embellishing the relationship with the assistance of his friend. Then and only then, can I see why would someone would do this in the first place, carry the ruse on for over 3 years, and then embellish it for a different purpose recently. Under this premise, that is the only way that I can consider the comments he made about a lover to be authenticate. Not authenticate to Lennay because we know she didnt exist, but to another person undercover. How else can you, Teo, give such clarity and detail regarding the relationship when being interviewed?
If you even try to consider it from the viewpoint that he was duped, it just doesnt make sense at all. Even among the nerdiest most reclusive people no one would continue to propagate such a relationship for such a period of time with no attempt to even stage a personal meeting. Sooner or later you get bored with and move on to another relationship.
But something tells me the way a lot of this has transpired - there is a jaded lover aspect to it, possibly. Teo is doing everything he can to manage the message, even with the help of ND. Maybe in the backchannels its elevated to a level of blackmail or extortion from the jaded lover. While I think it was inherently poor character to embellish such as relationship for publicity reasons - I can still understand why he did it. However, the minute it stops helping you - you shut it down. If you cant then there is reason you cant...
If you even try to consider it from the viewpoint that he was duped, it just doesnt make sense at all. Even among the nerdiest most reclusive people no one would continue to propagate such a relationship for such a period of time with no attempt to even stage a personal meeting. Sooner or later you get bored with and move on to another relationship.
But something tells me the way a lot of this has transpired - there is a jaded lover aspect to it, possibly. Teo is doing everything he can to manage the message, even with the help of ND. Maybe in the backchannels its elevated to a level of blackmail or extortion from the jaded lover. While I think it was inherently poor character to embellish such as relationship for publicity reasons - I can still understand why he did it. However, the minute it stops helping you - you shut it down. If you cant then there is reason you cant...
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WOW!!! This article really rips Notre Dame and Te'o. It's a great read.
The registration requires an email address only. I'm surprised a Chicago paper would be this hard on ND.
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