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In summary, author blames gaming sites for lack of journalistic integrity at the same time he fails to notice he is a liar and a snark. http://en.wikipedia.org
by kordless 14y ago
In summary, author blames gaming sites for lack of journalistic integrity at the same time he fails to notice he is a liar and a snark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
- gwern 14y agoHe didn't notice it? > I feel bad for lying, but it proves the point very well.
- mfringel 14y agoIn sentences like that, I tend to ignore everything before the 'but'. To my admittedly uneducated eye, nothing in the rest of that article indicates any kind of remorse or regret over the author's actions. The clause before the 'but' is how the author gives themselves permission to say what's after the 'but'. This does not necessarily impart any emotional (or even semantic) meaning onto the first clause.
- jacalata 14y agoYou can argue over how much he really felt bad, but you can't argue that he 'didn't notice he was lying'.
- taylorbuley 14y agoMuch of the facts found while reporting are veiled in personal interest and sometimes fibs. Part of our job is understanding and accounting for that.
- h2s 14y agoAgreed. This is the second such story in recent memory, the first being the fake leak of the "Sony Nexus X" in late 2012[1]. At this point I can't remember the last "real" fake leak. To me this format all just seems like so much anonymous attention-seeking. The little tumblr-based "How I did it" blog posts are always absolutely dripping with poorly concealed pride about how successful the hoax was. [1] http://anatomyofahoax.tumblr.com/ http://anatomyofahoax.tumblr.com/
- Dylan16807 14y agoUh. Being a hypocrite does not invalidate someone's point. You're providing a 'summary' that's useless.