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> The games industry is the only one I can think of that will quite happily publish guesswork as news. Ha. Ha. Assessing the credibility of news sources is far

• potatolicious 14y ago
  This is also why journalism is an actual field of study, not just a word to make oneself sound important. Assessing the credibility of sources is one of many very hard problems legitimate journalists face, and as a whole we have some obligations and expectations in place to ensure due diligence is followed. Which isn't perfect, but certainly a good foil for situations like this. I miss real journalism.
• kmfrk 14y ago
  One of the core differences between "videogame news" and "gossip news" is that the gossip rags don't rely on pseudo-sources to run a false story; they invent them themselves. The few number of times I have looked at gossip stories, they're usually a paraphrases of copy and paste from a single shit rag like US Weekly, or whatever they're called. And here we're talking about spreading false rumours about actual people, not inanimate product prototypes.
• mxxx 14y ago
  Yeah, I have to pretty strongly disagree with his statement there. All kinds of news outlets get caught with this kind of stuff time and time again.