@OnThePale Hi James! I'm wondering why you reported on the Ubisoft petition without mentioning that it's an obvious troll?pic.twitter.com/hew78fvVg3
That's something I hoped readers would discover on their own, moments after reading the petition in question.
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OK I'm confused. Why would you report on something when you hoped the audience would discover the truth behind it themselves?
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It seems not. It's blown up since your article and loads of ppl are taking it seriously and using it to say 'see? I knew gamers were awful'.
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There's no way that even the craziest right-winger would write this. It's clearly satire.pic.twitter.com/Ewp7jENI3K
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Perhaps today's sociopolitical climate is just unhinged enough that people can't easily tell what's satire and what isn't anymore.
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James, do you know who wrote this petition? It was clearly written to smear gamers, and the media is running with it.
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So you wrote a serious article about it Despite knowing it was a troll. Worst defense of clickbait I've ever seen.
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You're a journalist. You're not supposed to push things that aren't true as fact.
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That's such a lazy excuse (or a bad lie) if you actually meant anything in good faith you wouldn't push a narrative against the possibility.
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It's better to not report on it at all. Looking at all the outlets taking it seriously is fucking embarrassing.
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of all the defenses of clickbait I have ever seen this is probably the least intelligent
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Sry but I read that "I wrote something deliberately misleading for clicks & expected the readers to sort it" Why add to the tribalism?
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Your readers read the title and instantly made their minds up and you know it.
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What happened to the whole " report the truth".
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The truth is rarely as newsworthy. Reporting the truth is a dying fad. And unfortunately so.
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No insult to anyone involved in this that is. Im just speaking generally.
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That sounds lazy.
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isn't that, and I might sound dumb here, like yer job, as the writer, to convey that to the reader?
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