journalmalism caused the Manti Te’o fiasco (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Jan 18, 2013

What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• So that #embargo didn’t hold, I guess RT @RottenTomatoes: Broken City is #Rotten at 17% with 23 reviews: bit.ly/102glBi

• More on what we were talking about in this past Tuesday’s QOTD: From the Wire: Movie Ad Quotes Random People on Twitter

• Regardless of whether Te’o was a dupe or a perpetrator, this hoax could not have endured had journalists taken the slightest bit of interest in doing their jobs. Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax

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RogerBW

Fri, Jan 18, 2013 10:20am

Is it time at last to admit that all professional sports are basically fictional entertainment, it’s just that wrestling is honest about it? This seems to me like just another sort of kayfabe.

OnceJolly

reply to RogerBW

Fri, Jan 18, 2013 10:22pm

College football isn’t generally considered to be a professional sport (though some of the players get scholarships), and unless you’ve got information to the contrary that you’d like to share, I don’t have any reason to believe the contests are scripted (unlike wrestling). So I’m not really sure how you’re using “fictional” here.

Michael Brown

Fri, Jan 18, 2013 10:50pm

I’d like to hear from Manti, on camera, about how he could be all upset about what has turned out to be a hoax. What happened? How did it happen? After years of lying and cheating, at least Armstrong has come out (on Oprah!) about it. Gosh, all kicked off by an expose piece on 60 Minutes.