OT: Manti Te'o

[dani0100]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why this story is getting the news coverage it is. Is it kind of weird? Yes. Do millions of people do much weirder things every day? Yes. Is there any crime being committed or was anyone wronged in any way? No.

Meanwhile, our soldiers are dying, our government is completely broken and nobody can pay attention longer than five minutes so we can fix it, etc., etc.

America....what a country!

[Jlighter]

Originally Posted by dani0100

Is there any crime being committed or was anyone wronged in any way? No.

I could be wrong, but they used the pictures of a different person without their permission which may be illegal. They could be considered public domain though since they were on Facebook.

In terms of someone being wronged, yeah over a million were. The American viewing public was doped into believeing this lie. We were feeling sorry for a person who we should have in fact shunned. Donations were made in this persons name that did not exist. Yes, they went to a good cause whether she existed or not, but they did it on false pretenses that she was real. It should have been axiomatic that she was real. What, do we have to question now whether someone we haven't met in the flesh is real? It is people like this are leading to the degradation of our society.

Is this a big story? Yes. Does it matter in a context larger then itself? Yes. Did Manti do something nefarious? It's very likely. Will I keep answering my own questions? Yes.

There was a decent documentary that had a situation similar to this called Catfish, I believe it was mentioned in the Deadspin article.

[teetwoohsix]

Originally Posted by dani0100

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why this story is getting the news coverage it is. Is it kind of weird? Yes. Do millions of people do much weirder things every day? Yes. Is there any crime being committed or was anyone wronged in any way? No.

Meanwhile, our soldiers are dying, our government is completely broken and nobody can pay attention longer than five minutes so we can fix it, etc., etc.

America....what a country!

+1000

This is exactly what I was thinking when I was seeing this all over the news yesterday. It's wierd, strange, but worthy of being plastered all over the news everywhere you look? Not in my opinion. I call it a "distraction".

Sincerely, Clayton