re: Deadspin: Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story a Hoax (now with drug dealers!)

There you have it, ladies and whatever you call yourselves, a glistening example of American journalism. A network which failed to do it's initial job, at best being hoaxed by a guy with no money or resources, at worst, which was in the con, allows the possible hoaxer to set the interview parameters, no continuous audio/video, which then tells us what took place rather than having us see for ourselves, STILL doesn't have first person interviews with the people who were supposedly master minding this hoax, and has broken every journalistic SOP possible. If there is any question of the corruption and conflict of interest that American networks engage in as a matter of course, this whole Manti episode answers just how depraved this industry has become....