TheExplodingHead
Banned
Wow. "Do what you must." "against you and the Internet." How about, "Do what is right" and "against this sort of behavior."
It's a little odd for you to think we have some sort of vendetta against a person I did not know existed until today. Or that we (the collective GAF, that we are...apparently) are just against games journalism. I think largely, the members here are greatly supportive of actual games journalism, and even of humorous games enthusiast bloggers.
What I don't see a lot of support for is the type of behavior we just witnessed. There is no excuse for posting rumors based on "gut" and "it seemed okay" and still pretending to fall under the banner of "journalist."
Of course it's hard to verify sources on leaks and rumors. That doesn't mean you post every rumor and leak based solely on an image and other sites hopping aboard it. As was pointed out earlier, if Jason and Kotaku had decided to pass on this rumor, or wait for it to be verified, we'd now be talking about how they were one of the major sites to be above this type of rumor mongering.
And his wounded pride bit about being a "punching bag" does nothing for me considering his earlier tirade about how the forum members here should do his job for him.
The irony of course is this entire snafu probably increased traffic and interest for the articles... Almost makes you wonder why all these sites haven't unilaterally pulled the story.