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The Media Lie of "Anonymous Sources"

Summary is Kotaku are liars and somehow Nathan Grayson is paid to lie. There are long-term damages however because this isn't isolated, it isn't restricted to games media, and it's not even the most-recent example in the news.

The ultimate problem is that the angle of Anonymous Sources isn't an invalid process, but like all tools, lose their effect when they're abused.

This irks me because...welp, gonna veer into politics for a just a beat, but:

Scandal Erupts As Several Outlets CAUGHT Pushing Lie...

Same. Goddamn. Problem.

"Dude, trust me" is going to get us in a hole we can't dig ourselves out, and I'm just...at an ends. Like...the holy hell is wrong with people when they commit to this stupidity for a few dollars?

i mean, not the first time we've heard bad shit about kotaku reporting

There was also the Stardock bit that sought to ruin a man's entire life before Me Too was actually branded

(which, by the by, the publication has yet to pull said articles or even apologize, iirc)

Brad Wardell I recall his name being