PedroPanache
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Actually, it's pretty easy to say "hey, this Forbes blogger should have reached out to Kotaku for comment before writing about Kotaku" without giving my thoughts on the actual content of his article or our article. Which is what I did.
If you're going to demand better journalism - which you should! - then don't just ignore the tenets of journalism because you happen to agree with a writer's opinion. Unless you want all of games media to turn into Forbes-like content farms full of writers who just look at what NeoGAF or Reddit are talking about on any given day and then echo whatever opinion most people seem to agree with.
I don't think anything in that opinion piece is invalidated by the writer's decision not to reach out for a comment from kotaku; as a basic tenant, it need not be applied across every opinion piece or critique that someone decides to write. I'd be more concerned if his piece was invalidated by poor research more than anything else, which is a far more important tenant of journalism.