sports journalism

When things go wrong in the media world, the 24-hour- news cycle is often deemed culpable. Our fast paced society craves new facts concerning new events to digest on a new tablet with the new news app from a new blog from a new media company. Not coincidentally, a lot of nonsense gets flagged as worthwhile news to satiate hungry media consumers.

The Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax is rocking the sports world, as people scramble to figure out whether Te'o, projected by Mel Kiper Jr. to be a top ten pick in this year's NFL Draft, was the creator or victim of an elaborate hoax that invented Te'o's girlfriend Lennay Kekua. Another obvious question that has emerged from the story is who is to blame for this hoax picking up steam and spiraling out o

Many people felt for Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o when he lost both his grandmother, and his girlfriend in a span of just a few hours. As it turns out, the whole girlfriend thing was totally made up.