You expect thorough journalism, yet you're angry that journalists haven't done anything about the 1080p issue within
three days? Come on.
One difference between "ex-editors, CBOAT and insiders" and journalists is that journalists have track records. They have to be more thorough. They have to make sure that what they're reporting is correct, and they have to be sure to contextualize that information properly. Believe it or not, that takes time.
It's the same thing that happened with Aliens: Colonial Marines. When that game came out, I wanted to report the story of what happened, but for weeks, as I was talking to people and trying to confirm everything I'd learned, all I saw on NeoGAF, Reddit, and other gaming websites was a non-stop barrage of anonymous rumors and insiders - half of which were totally wrong - as I tried to find the real story. When I published my investigation (
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=515848), people had already read tons of nonsense, and the story suffered because of that.
So you say you want thorough journalism, yet you're quick to hop on every vague tweet and anonymous insider you can find? Something doesn't compute here.
In the case of Call of Duty... I'm not under any embargoes, nor do I know much about all the nonsense that has gone down here. (If you are privy to info, anonymous tips are
always welcome.)
Now, yes, I hate vague teasing tweets just as much as the rest of you. I believe it's a journalist's job to be honest and candid and work to acquire information for readers, not for themselves or the people they cover. And I'm certainly not the only reporter who thinks that way. So how do you think we feel when people on NeoGAF shit all over us and our sites while embracing anonymous Redditors or "insiders" who are purposefully inflammatory and wrong half the time?
Besides, if you read Kotaku, you knew about all this Microsoft stuff months ago anyway.
http://kotaku.com/about-microsoft-being-six-months-behind-with-the-next-486212937