Read the Sandusky Report Online, No Journalist Analysis Required

It took only a few minutes for a copy of former FBI director Louis Freeh's investigation into Pennsylvania State University's involvement in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal to appear online after the mainstream press first broke the story.

Soon, links to the report spread across social media at a breakneck pace.

The speed at which the full page report was available -- speed made possible by the Internet -- meant that many readers were presented with a choice: read the report itself, journalists' analyses of the report or some combination of the two.

Many people around the world went with the first option, choosing to read the report and forego journalists' analyses of a prima…
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