Does Deadspin's Manti Te'o story 'diminish' investigative journalism?

One of the journalists who revealed the tale was a big hoax seems to think so. Oh and there has been another twist this morning…

Here are five things you might not have known about the hoax.

1 Deadspin scooped the entire US mass media by outing the story as a hoax, but does it diminish investigative journalism?