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IGN suffers a lesson in journalistic screwup and still mostly misses the point

Posted by Max Jun 8 '14, 19:05

"The business of handling news sources involves some assumption of risk and last night my evaluation of that risk was clearly in error."

"I reached out to Sony of America, who was unable to comment on the story. I published the story based on the strength of our single source."

the initial announcement: https://twitter.com/IGN/status/475505404915765248

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/09/the-last-guardian-an-apology (www.ign.com)

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He'll be the Butts of jokes about it for a long time to come. -- nm - Qale Jun 8, 19:33
At least he did the right thing and fell on his sword. -- nm - Imperator Jun 8, 19:12 4
- I bet he'll be exploring fun options for the future in 3 months. -- nm - Remlik Jun 8, 19:14 2
  - I'd put the over/under at 3 days. - Imperator Jun 8, 19:15 1
    - No way. It's hardly their first screw up. He won't be going anywhere. -- nm - Max Jun 8, 19:25
- True, and before the weekday. -- nm - Max Jun 8, 19:13
I wonder what else we could get them to publish. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 19:10

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