Oh, snap: The Globe cautioned readers [2] of its story about the Notre Dame football player with the fake dead girlfriend [3] that
Now, it appears Te'o's inspiring story was a hoax. According to a report on Deadspin.com, a website that has broken some high-profile stories but not an outlet regarded for journalistic standards, Kekua never existed.
Of course, the Globe was as invested in the Te'o story [4] as every other media outlet in the country, but really?
The Globe is a regular re-user of stuff from TMZ.com [5], whose journalistic standards [6] it doesn't question. And its news writers see nothing wrong with updating stories broken by Gawker [7], which is owned by the same company as Deadspin.