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- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18This applies to any kind of reporting. You only notice it in video game news because you know video games inside out. If you know everything there is to know about any subject and then read a reporter's article about it, you will find all sorts of mistakes. It is because reporters aren't experts and are under a lot of time pressure. Add personal, political and other biases (like the bias to sensationalism) to the mix and you wind up with an article riddled with errors.
Funnily enough, most people tend to forget this when they read reporting about a subject they don't know much about. - strangerzero, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Skepticism is always a good approach.
- Railer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18By the way not only did you hit it right on the nose, but this also works for:
- Your preferred political party
- Environmental groups
- Most medical news stories - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12An in a recent study, Digg has been found to be wondrously internecine for your haleness.
A study next week will disprove these claims, then another will reaffirm it, and so forth, boggling the minds of citizens everywhere.
On a serious note, though, this is why I don't watch the news anymore. Pretty tired of them ramping up topics to get ratings, while no one questions them and no real news gets on the headlines (Colbert dinner, anyone?). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Because Dan Brown hasn't written a book on it yet?
- Qorzm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Kind of like the story about Wii being $250.
- mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8RIGHT!
Because Lou Dobbs is such a bleeding heart liberal.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200605030008
http://mediamatters.org/items/200603270002
http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250004
The O'briens are die-hard hippies.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200605100006
http://mediamatters.org/items/200604210006
Glenn Beck is left of Stalin.
http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/glennbeck
Yeah when you put it that way CNN is FOX's polar opposite.
Give me the name of a single network out there that oozes liberal blather as blatantly as FOX broadcasts the daily memo live from Radio Halliburton deep within Cheney's bunker.
And don't start me with Air America Radio and their daily live broadcast from the Streisand Compound, because who listens to them besides me and some other people? - TexMachina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They left out "There's a sucker born every minute."
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6So dark the facts of man
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Not to mention the patent office. The patent office should throw out patents that obfiscate their English. At first, that would be about every one, but the process would be a self-improving one.
- daedelvis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33 words: Wag the Dog. What was really going on behind the scenes when the nations attention was turned on oh, say OJ, Monica Lewinsky, anthrax, WMD? no one is buying the bird flu scare. maybe we can concoct some emerging world power with nukes. yeaaah, that's it! nukes!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3lol almost every game and sytem is over hyped only to come out not as good as promissed..
look at the cell processor, supposed to be stronger than many of my pc's put together.. i wont hold my breath
or what about the "it" device.. supposed to change how people travel.. hadnt seen a segway yet.. and now i hear alagators are revolting.. and credit car companies have never had a customer die.. - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Enthusiasts simply don't have the objective meantality of a real journalist. It's kind of like watching political pundints on TV. Their message is designed to sound casual but in realty they are masters of language and the science of propoganda. Enthusiasts are well meaning people but they fall for the bait way too easily.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not always, but the "senior editors" usually are in bed with the corporate scumbags.
And it's the senior editors that decide what articles go to print. - tommythetomcat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5It's been my observation that most people I know over the age of 30 take everything they hear from the various news organizations as absolute facts. I like to watch FOX news and then watch CNN to see how they both skew stories in opposite directions.
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And so are people who believe everything they say.
- inturnaround, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
- Lutja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i miss morning sedition.
- raindog469, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mushoo, one way of making an extremist view seem mainstream is by painting a competing mainstream view as extremist, especially in the absence of any actual extremists opposing you.
For some reason, even the Air America guys don't seem to have figured out how to use that to their advantage. Fox did, though. - Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The big problem imo is the news analysts and opinion writer's who are often seen as news sources to many. They are generally ignorant or downright lazy in their understanding of a chosen topic, and who create as the basis for their arguments are logical fallacies most of the time. Not all of them are wrong of course, but the good ones can be drowned out by the bad ones easily.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3 Simple. Because journalists are idiots.
- scsikool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>> However, this year, after watching video game companies break several key promises made during E3 2005, and then reading a new batch of promises made for E3 2006, I was expecting to see a more cynical approach to the reporting of these facts. After all, if they've just shown that last year's promises aren't very good, what about the stuff they said this year?
Hmm.. if I were a reporter why would I take a moment from my day to challenge their statements if they don't meet delivery or feature expectations? They're the ones losing money by not delivering. Let their stockholders and retailers hold their feet to the fire. That's where the story will be! - Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think reporters should stick to an area they choose that represents their expertise. It would solve lots of problems, even though it's not very possible currently (getting closer each year online, though!)
- jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3neo-darwinism
- Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the cell processor is a sweet piece of technology that never had to have been created but one thing I like about Sony's decision is they went down the hard path when they didn't have to.
- sporktek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Works for a lot of things. This article should be required reading for anyone looking for a wonderful and proffitable (:roll:) "career" with a pyramid scheme. I once had a guy sit down and feed me about an hour of straight-faced mistruths, lies, spins and false statistics in an attempt to warm me up to Quixtar. I'm a strong skeptic myself, so I just nodded and kept repeating "*****" over and over to myself for each of his "points", and I managed to not only remain firmly un-taken in, but actually pushed quite a bit farther from his lifestyle choice (that is, being poor and staying that way guaranteed buying product so he can draw a picture of what proffit might look like on legal pads if that much plus twenty percent wasn't going straight out of his bank account every time he saw a so-called "dividend").
- tsbardella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree so much, I am saving this as something to go back to again when I feel frustrated with the angling pomposity and firestorms of futility that make up most news stories.
- Aidenag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 Mabe its because 90% of the money the news stations make is FROM these very companies.... of course there not going to badmouth them.. or discredit somthing they say.. You dont bite the hand...
Its america's biggest problem, and why im looking to relocate to New Zealand.. everyone here is in bed with everyone else.. And that creates a system where A. next to nothing gets accomplished. and B. what does get accomplished only benifits a few, and ussually physically harms the rest of us.. - scstraus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I think the article should be renamed "How to fool arrogant people". I think anyone who is truly smart got that way by knowing when they don't know something about a topic and researching it enough to know the truth. Anyone who just takes a bunch of mumbo jumbo at face value to make a decision, while they might be smart, wouldn't learn much.
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only trustworthy media soure is Consumer Reports. They are trustworthy because they do not take advertising dollars. Any industry that takes money from another can not be trusted to have an unbiased opinion in regards to the industry that has paid them.
- LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who doesn't already know this? This is no surprise. I give no respect to liars who make stuff up. How can you survive in this world without this knowledge?
- SmartITGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Because the 'press' is just a bunch of brain-dead, text-weaving, statistic-generating, uneducated-in-the-field-of-which-they-speak pissants who can be paid by friends or bosses to brainwash the general public into any specific bias they choose!
- mpitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Was it Socrates that taught... "read everything you can and question everything you read"?
- kozie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Most people just don't have the "time" or "energy" to question what they are told to believe. And then these things they have been taught are challenged and they "wake up" to even more propaganda. The cycle continues...
- skytimelapse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I dont believe you
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -7/+58. National Security - That seems to be the catch-all these days...
9. The facts reside in a congressman's office - Apparently both parties feel those tax-payer funded walls are immune. - gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3http://gullible.info/
- biffsputnik, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4@shoolz
Digg for invoking Dr. J... pure genius - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Huh, WTF is this article talking about? No examples? I'm not even sure if there are unchallenged questionable facts in the gaming industry.
- hobgobbler, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3One time I got my dick stuck in a shampoo bottle.
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