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Following on from comments made earlier today by EG's Greg 'Idra' Fields about Rod 'Slasher' Breslau's journalism, multiple sources within Gamespot have confirmed Field's accusations. On his Twitter page, Fields criticised Breslau for reporting on player pickups by Starcraft 2 team Axiom before the initial team announcement, remarking that:
"youre supposed to report on news. Not do a shitty unexciting job of announcing information that does not belong to you "
While Breslau soon took to Twitter to defend his behaviour, sources within Gamespot have revealed that Slasher's scoop reporting is not supported by other journalists. Says one of the sources:
"If you are a journalist, it is not your job to report on news until another news source has reported it first, whether it is given to you on the record or not"
Breslau was unable to be reached for comment on the matter. It is expected that he will be disciplined internally for what one source described as "an appalling display of journalistic ethics".
This is 100% bad fiction
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Disclaimer: The above is 100% fiction
weak
Also, Slasher said he would and was doing this sort of things on Live on Three. He even commented on my piece when I wrote about the thin lines of journalism: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=377832
edit: wow, you even edited it out.
Get the fuck outta here
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In other news, north korea is revealed to be an unsuccessful country
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Disclaimer: The above is 100% fiction
The fuck?
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If you are a journalist, it is not your job to report on news until another news source has reported it first, whether it is given to you on the record or not
wat
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"Shaddar revealed to be a writer of sub-par satire" ought to be the title imo. Sorry mate, try again.
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On January 10 2013 12:17 farvacola wrote: "Shaddar revealed to be a writer of sub-par satire" ought to be the title imo. Sorry mate, try again. I like it
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bad satire and worse subject matter. Its quite common for sports journalists to break the news about signings long before they are officially announced and any journalist would tell you that if you have a confirmed source (in normal journalism you have to get two confirmed sources before they will print in fact) then break it.
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On January 10 2013 12:03 Torte de Lini wrote:weak Also, Slasher said he would and was doing this sort of things on Live on Three. He even commented on my piece when I wrote about the thin lines of journalism: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=377832 edit: wow, you even edited it out.Get the fuck outta here
Either it's better with it or it's better without it or it's shit either way. I'm hardly denying it was there in the first place, anyone can see that in the comments. I was attempting to respond to criticism, no need to be a shit about it.
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On January 10 2013 12:24 emythrel wrote: bad satire and worse subject matter. Its quite common for sports journalists to break the news about signings long before they are officially announced and any journalist would tell you that if you have a confirmed source (in normal journalism you have to get two confirmed sources before they will print in fact) then break it.
I know, I agree with Slasher 100% on this. If that didn't come across then it definitely is bad satire
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The only way Slasher possibly breached ethics here would be if he got a press release asking him to delay the release, and he ran the news early.
Barring that, as long as he got the information about the signing on-the-record, I don't think he did anything wrong.
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Even before this, he was pretty bad. He is basically the fox news of the sc2 scene.
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This blog is just... bad.
I'm sorry but I don't even know where to start critiquing this piece.
If its a satire it needs to be funny. IT is not funny, and so I mistook this for a legitimate blog complaining about Slasher, at which point all I could think was "this is fucking stupid". I don't normally curse in my thoughts, it was just that bad.
It needs the disclaimer in there, because it is 0% funny, and people are mistaking it for fact. That doesn't mean its well written, it just means that people are stupid.
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On January 10 2013 14:01 iGrok wrote: This blog is just... bad.
I'm sorry but I don't even know where to start critiquing this piece.
If its a satire it needs to be funny. IT is not funny, and so I mistook this for a legitimate blog complaining about Slasher, at which point all I could think was "this is fucking stupid". I don't normally curse in my thoughts, it was just that bad.
It needs the disclaimer in there, because it is 0% funny, and people are mistaking it for fact. That doesn't mean its well written, it just means that people are stupid. I agree completely. This "blog" is terrible.
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Poor OP, he's never going to write a blog again after reading some of the feedback. He's going to suffer from Post-Blog Stress Disorder
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I think OP just made a poor judgement call without thinking on it. We've all done that countless times. No harm done, it's ok.
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aww I feel bad for the OP, but this does kinda suck :\
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On January 10 2013 15:00 Whatson wrote:Show nested quote +On January 10 2013 14:01 iGrok wrote: This blog is just... bad.
I'm sorry but I don't even know where to start critiquing this piece.
If its a satire it needs to be funny. IT is not funny, and so I mistook this for a legitimate blog complaining about Slasher, at which point all I could think was "this is fucking stupid". I don't normally curse in my thoughts, it was just that bad.
It needs the disclaimer in there, because it is 0% funny, and people are mistaking it for fact. That doesn't mean its well written, it just means that people are stupid. I agree completely. This "blog" is terrible. Hate to break it to OP, but indeed...not the best "satire" in this "blog", to say the least :\
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"If you are a journalist, it is not your job to report on news until another news source has reported it first"
The blog is obviously a joke, but if the OP is seriously of the opinion represented above: Lol.
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