Deadspin: Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend story was a hoax

I think he's talking about the other main one. And, for that matter, the other other main one.

 

The most recent main one. Damn, you get around. DD thinks highly of Craggs.

 

No, no.

DD IS Craggs.

 

I hear typefitter is Tom Scocca.

 

Ruckus is Daulerio.

 

Glad you agree - Cragg's ego is really getting out of control.

 

That's gonna leave a mark.

 

I would pit Uncle.Ruckus as Will Leitch, thinking he was starting something to save the world that really was more or less the same thing we had before with the cap turned back.

 

Yes . . . "Cragg's"(sic) ego. That's what I was referring to.

I took the low-hanging fruit, and am ashamed.

 

I'm a rare bird: I like both Deadspin and good long-form storytelling, which, by the way, Deadspin does provide, as well. Without Esquire's penchant for embellishment. Or the New Yorker's for 25-inch digressions on the 14th-century roots of the modern hand sanitizer pump.

I'll say this: It's pretty revisionist to say that the "80 percent" quote was just a throwaway line buried late in the story. Deadspin hung its hat on that for weeks. It wrote a lot of follow-ups making fun of Notre Dame truthers who didn't think Te'o had orchestrated everything from Day 1.

The world needs a cynic. Espeically this world, in which awe-inspiring giants and noble knights roam most sports pages. But a cynic can overreach sometimes, too.

 

I would argue that only someone on this board would think that's a rare thing. Visit longreads or longform.org, and it's obvious how overlapping blog culture and long-form culture have become.

 

Good point. Yeah, let me add, "rare bird on this board." The only place the war seems to be going on is here, and between Tommy Craggs, Tom Scocca, and, like, two random writers at Esquire.