Couldn't agree more. This is a ridiculous witch hunt by a bunch of self aggrandising amateurs posing as 'holier than thou' games journalists.
It seems that the thing that many people here seems to have trouble differentiating between is a story posted as rumour and a story posted as fact.
If a site like Kotaku (or any of the other sites that also ran the story but are conspicuously being left out of this debate) posts a story as rumour, they are not obliged to back it up with sources. If they post a story as fact without checking their sources, that's a different story, but that is not what happened here.
I don't know how much more clearly I can put it, but I'm sure that some idiots pretending to be games journalists will still find reason to find fault with my argument. I am a games journalist and I could name ten stories off the top of my head from various big news sites that have been posted as rumours over the past month, that turned out not to be true. Where are the articles damning them and claiming they are not 'proper' journalists?
This whole farce has served only two purposes; it's given the people at CAG (and apparently Giant Realm too) a conceited reason to behave like a bunch of smug self-congratulating adolescents, and it has given forum trolls everywhere the opportunity to jump on the moral high ground and make ill informed sermons about investigative journalism (many of which are now claiming they themselves are journalists).
The whole thing stinks to high heaven!
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