This afternoon I read an article about an "analyst" who made the prediction that the next gen video game console, "Nintendo Revolution," will take the lead in marketshare by 2010. That's fine, because that's news, and nothing seemed wrong with it. After all, analysts make predictions all the time, this analyst is the only one who picked Nintendo to come out #1. That's why it's news, so it's fine.
The story said this guy was a "self-proclaimed" analyst and didn't go into any further detail. But they quoted him, and he seemed to explain his ideas well enough, so that's fine.
Next I see the same newsstory on mtv.com (I don't read MTV news, but I have a Google Homepage that gathers news from many different sources and puts them on my homepage, mmm'kay?
), and they say this "analyst" was just some guy who browses internet forums. Browsing internet forums is a decent way of getting into peoples minds and getting a broad perspective, so that's ok.
Then MTV quote him further..........
Ok, this isn't news anymore, is it? This is just a 17 year old board member with the smarts of an 11 year old.
Then as a rebuttal, they quote a pro-Sony *cough*"analyst" as well:
Where's the news in any of this? Is everyone an expert nowadays? Any source can make someone sound like an expert, and another news source can reveal this same expert to be a friggin buffoon.
Look how easily we're fooled. All a writer has to do is to not include the entire interview or crazy quotables from this guy, and he'll sound completely normal. I mean, he had me fooled as an analyst after I read the 1st story.
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The story said this guy was a "self-proclaimed" analyst and didn't go into any further detail. But they quoted him, and he seemed to explain his ideas well enough, so that's fine.
Next I see the same newsstory on mtv.com (I don't read MTV news, but I have a Google Homepage that gathers news from many different sources and puts them on my homepage, mmm'kay?
), and they say this "analyst" was just some guy who browses internet forums. Browsing internet forums is a decent way of getting into peoples minds and getting a broad perspective, so that's ok.Then MTV quote him further..........
Runte wasn't done touting Nintendo's future after the phone conversation with GameSpot News. In a follow-up e-mail, he wrote "OMG!!! Zelda on teh DS roolz!!!11!1!!1!1 Chrono Trigger downloadable?
Ok, this isn't news anymore, is it? This is just a 17 year old board member with the smarts of an 11 year old.
Then as a rebuttal, they quote a pro-Sony *cough*"analyst" as well:
Where's the news in any of this? Is everyone an expert nowadays?
Any source can make someone sound like an expert, and another news source can reveal this same expert to be a friggin buffoon.Look how easily we're fooled. All a writer has to do is to not include the entire interview or crazy quotables from this guy, and he'll sound completely normal. I mean, he had me fooled as an analyst after I read the 1st story.
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