American Thinker
by Scott Mayer
February 4, 2013

It's easy to understand why the mainstream media ran with the heart wrenching story about Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o's "dead girlfriend" as well as the other conflicting stories about the couple's "relationship" without engaging in actual journalism. The story happened to fit within the approved media template and didn't require any further manufacturing. But with President Obama, the MSM must work overtime to positively spin everything he says or does before it is passed on to the public as objective "news."

It finally took a member of the new media -- Deadspin -- to do some actual investigative reporting on the Te'o story.

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