Media Research Failure/Quotes

"If you don’t intend to PLAY a game you are reviewing, at least research it! Reasearch is the heart and soul of writing! Without the facts, all of your writing in any given field will be ignorant and considered poor."

—A commenter on this EarthBound Central article, on a hilariously inaccurate mid-90s review of EarthBound.

"As Abraham Lincoln once said, Journalism is the first rough draft of history. Or possibly it was Thomas Edison who said that. I'm pretty sure somebody said it, because you often hear journalists quote it in an effort to explain how come they get everything wrong."

—Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

Roger Petersen (news reporter): It's a frightening and disgusting trend in the world of online gaming.
Ethan Klein: I am frightened and disgusted.. about this hobby I don't know anything about. But trust me and listen to me, because I'm gonna tell you why you need to be frightened and disgusted. Written by people who don't know anything about it. Channel Fuck Me News, tonight, the exclusive.

—Girl sexually assaulted in GTA V -- h3h3 reaction video

"I feel like she's verbally spamming me right now, I'm not sure that she actually said anything. 'Hacks! Hacks and modders are raping people online and sexually assaulting people's assholes! Have you ever had your asshole hacked by a hacking modder?'"

—Ethan, on a news reporter, Girl sexually assaulted in GTA V -- h3h3 reaction video

"Please, get your children out of the room, because they're actually the only ones who know about this enough to educate you. So please get all the children out of the room, it's too violent and disturbing for them."

—Ethan Klein on this news report's Content Warning, Girl sexually assaulted in GTA V -- h3h3 reaction video

"The online publication [HollywoodLife] did not do any independent reporting of its own and had no confirmation that the claims [of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's divorce] were legitimate. In fact, proving that it didn’t know anything about the validity of the tabloid [Life & Style]'s report, the webloid actually asked its own readers whether they thought the couple is “splitting.”
That is not how real news operations are supposed to work. Journalists don't look to readers to provide answers. Journalists yourself deliver the accurate, true information from the start. The blog did not do that. Instead, it published what was already known to be lies."

—Shari Weiss, HollywoodLife Lies About Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Getting Divorced (Gossip Cop)

"Must get my release dates right. I cocked up in the last video and had a brain fart, and managed to give the release date of the PlayStation as the release date of the PS2. Ugh, always annoying when you do that, especially 'cause if you do that on the Internet, that means you get weeks of hysterical abuse from emotionally damaged people. And that's never nice, is it, for anybody."

—Ashens, in his review of the Neo Geo Mini

"THE NIKE64 ARTICLE I READ^[1] HAD THE PHRASE "MARIO CART" IN IT. THIS IS A CARDINAL SIN TO OUR CULTURE AND NOTHING CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE."

—dashPotato, in a July 2019 THROWDOWN THURSDAY thread on /r/nintendo

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