How is it even possible that sports journalists across the world were reporting on the first story for weeks and not one person verify it? No one looked for her obit? No one tried to reach out to her family? No one tried to get a comment from her friends?
Maybe it’s just me not being able to take it, but the fact that ESPN, SI, CNN, and every other group that covered the first story didn’t see any signs. But a couple no name weirdos from Deadspin peiced it all together. Just doesn’t make logical sense.
Why not? The media was fed a narrative that met with their preconceptions and self interest, and so they reported it without a second thought and without any fact checking. It happens every day in the political world, and proves the point that 99% of journalists are too lazy and intellectually vacant to set aside their personal beliefs and report the actual facts.
Here’s your simple guide to understanding mass media. It’s all a lie. All of it, the entertainment programming, the commercials, the sports, the reality programming, and the news. Especially the news.
All of the “journalists” knew about Rielle and it took a scandal sheet to print it. Birds of a feather.
“No one looked for her obit?”
EXACTLY! I just watched ESPN First Take, and the Chicago Tribune reporter that interviewed Te’o said he believed Te’o when he interviewed him. Then went on to say that as he was writing the story he tried to look for her obit but couldn’t find it.
Give me an F’n break! He couldn’t find it! Are you telling me he never asked Manti where his online gf lived? And this lamestream reporter never investigated the Notre Dame investigators?
I don’t know who is telling the truth, but I know who is outright lying; and it is the lying mainstream reporters once again. These guys just don’t vet or investigate.
Skip Bayless and Stephan A. Smith had a wild back and forth on this issue today. They never confronted the Trib reporter and never went incredulous on him like I just did.