Night_Trekker said:I will be very disappointed if 5th Cell bows to this pressure.
sprsk said:If Sambo is a type of watermelon, what's the issue?
Vagabundo said:Roast chicken sambo (google images):
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He made us all hungry.OnPoint said:Are you aware of the stereotype that black people love chicken? What have you done?!
OnPoint said:Are you aware of the stereotype that black people love chicken? What have you done?!
OnPoint said:Are you aware of the stereotype that black people love chicken? What have you done?!
OnPoint said:Are you aware of the stereotype that black people love chicken? What have you done?!
batbeg said:know when I was in one of my classes we were watching an old British sitcom (the one about the black, African neighbor moving in, can't remember the title, pretty well known though)
A Black Falcon said:Fried chicken specifically though, I think, not just any kind of chicken.
Night_Trekker said:Big wall of awesome and win.
mrklaw said:I'm old and from the UK and remember reading 'that book' and being fond of it (OMG Racist child!). So perhaps its a generational thing - the book disappeared pretty quickly in the 80's I think.
That looks tasty. nom nom nom nomamtentori said:![]()
These things are extremely tasty btw.
The old packaging used to have a dark skinned person wearing a straw hat.
it was changed about 8 years ago.
stephentotilo said:In instances like this, ignoring a story -- one that was already on the Internet before we posted -- is not an option. What is an option is striving to get comment from the people involved. We held off publication until we did. It doesn't matter if I like Scribblenauts, like the folks from 5th Cell, visited their studio a couple of weeks ago, or any of that. If there's news, the reporter's obligation is to look into it.
I see there are disagreements about how widely known the word sambo is, how widely its racial connotations are known, about what information we included or didn't include in the story. But at the end of the day, we presented a story that I feel put the facts out there, explained the context, provided the needed explanation and ample defense from 5th Cell.
A reader who is thinking critically and whose heart and gut tell them that people at the development studio didn't intend any wrong will find plenty of facts in the story to support that.
This isn't a matter of what I want the story to include, but what we think the story needs to include, to be responsible and dispassionate, to focus on what we know and what we can back up. That was the goal and the service we hope to continue to provide to our readers.
stephentotilo said:But at the end of the day, we presented a story that I feel put the facts out there, explained the context, provided the needed explanation and ample defense from 5th Cell.
stephentotilo said:In instances like this, ignoring a story -- one that was already on the Internet before we posted -- is not an option. What is an option is striving to get comment from the people involved. We held off publication until we did. It doesn't matter if I like Scribblenauts, like the folks from 5th Cell, visited their studio a couple of weeks ago, or any of that. If there's news, the reporter's obligation is to look into it.
A reader who is thinking critically and whose heart and gut tell them that people at the development studio didn't intend any wrong will find plenty of facts in the story to support that.
This isn't a matter of what I want the story to include, but what we think the story needs to include, to be responsible and dispassionate, to focus on what we know and what we can back up. That was the goal and the service we hope to continue to provide to our readers.
stephentotilo said:stuff here
:lolstephentotilo said:In instances like this, ignoring a story -- one that was already on the Internet before we posted -- is not an option. What is an option is striving to get comment from the people involved. We held off publication until we did. It doesn't matter if I like Scribblenauts, like the folks from 5th Cell, visited their studio a couple of weeks ago, or any of that. If there's news, the reporter's obligation is to look into it.
I see there are disagreements about how widely known the word sambo is, how widely its racial connotations are known, about what information we included or didn't include in the story. But at the end of the day, we presented a story that I feel put the facts out there, explained the context, provided the needed explanation and ample defense from 5th Cell.
A reader who is thinking critically and whose heart and gut tell them that people at the development studio didn't intend any wrong will find plenty of facts in the story to support that.
This isn't a matter of what I want the story to include, but what we think the story needs to include, to be responsible and dispassionate, to focus on what we know and what we can back up. That was the goal and the service we hope to continue to provide to our readers.
Stephen tell me how your article is anything other than this^^TheRagnCajun said:...sure looks like a whole lot of sensationalism to me.
i remember when you used to be a journalist.stephentotilo said:In instances like this, ignoring a story -- one that was already on the Internet before we posted -- is not an option. What is an option is striving to get comment from the people involved. We held off publication until we did. It doesn't matter if I like Scribblenauts, like the folks from 5th Cell, visited their studio a couple of weeks ago, or any of that. If there's news, the reporter's obligation is to look into it.
I see there are disagreements about how widely known the word sambo is, how widely its racial connotations are known, about what information we included or didn't include in the story. But at the end of the day, we presented a story that I feel put the facts out there, explained the context, provided the needed explanation and ample defense from 5th Cell.
A reader who is thinking critically and whose heart and gut tell them that people at the development studio didn't intend any wrong will find plenty of facts in the story to support that.
This isn't a matter of what I want the story to include, but what we think the story needs to include, to be responsible and dispassionate, to focus on what we know and what we can back up. That was the goal and the service we hope to continue to provide to our readers.
The Faceless Master said:i remember when you used to be a journalist.
stephentotilo said:Ah yes, people decrying my move to Kotaku, that terrible site that enables me to write and report the same kinds of stories I did at MTV Multiplayer and yet have 10 times the readers for the posts I always knew more people would care about.
stephentotilo said:In instances like this, ignoring a story -- one that was already on the Internet before we posted -- is not an option. What is an option is striving to get comment from the people involved. We held off publication until we did. It doesn't matter if I like Scribblenauts, like the folks from 5th Cell, visited their studio a couple of weeks ago, or any of that. If there's news, the reporter's obligation is to look into it.
I see there are disagreements about how widely known the word sambo is, how widely its racial connotations are known, about what information we included or didn't include in the story. But at the end of the day, we presented a story that I feel put the facts out there, explained the context, provided the needed explanation and ample defense from 5th Cell.
A reader who is thinking critically and whose heart and gut tell them that people at the development studio didn't intend any wrong will find plenty of facts in the story to support that.
This isn't a matter of what I want the story to include, but what we think the story needs to include, to be responsible and dispassionate, to focus on what we know and what we can back up. That was the goal and the service we hope to continue to provide to our readers.
Same here. I would just stop visiting Kotaku, guys. I never go there and I get by.birdman said:All I can say is that I never even heard the term until I saw it mentioned on Kotaku today.
Blueblur1 said:Same here. I would just stop visiting Kotaku, guys. I never go there and I get by.
As a writer, I want to make out with you so hard right now.Stumpokapow said:<Explanation of dispassionate journalism and why the Kotaku article is not that.>
fernoca said:Don't forget the grape juice!