When Game News Takes A Bad Turn....
I dont know who all on here use facebook, I do*for the current time* and I liked a page called Zeldainformer. They typically do a good job about bringing news to forefront about anything zelda and normally they are pretty trustworthy but something occured today that might have changed that credibility stance for a lot of people. Today they posted a article apparently claiming false information but at the same time they werent trying to really hide it was false. If that makes an sense, honestly Im a tad confused which going on 5 hours of sleep could be to blame. Overall they seemed to have pissed off a good chunk of their fanbase. Now I cant say whether anyone has a right to be mad or not. Im technically not upset at all by it but it brought the most interesting question up in my head, should we truely support this sort of thing in game journalism?
Game journalism honestly is one of the high ranking types thats gets a ton of false and misleading information on a daily basis. A ton of news stories hit the web especially on a day to day basis that can be true or false and while most game journalism sites handle things with extreme care some are downright callous to it and dont care. Zeldainformer I personally wouldnt consider callous, they normally always try to keep everything they post legit. They purposefully posted a false news story because they apparently feel that this will help combat people believeing everything lil thing they read. Their hopeing this will encourage people to look up facts and sources and check everything they read. As much as I wish thats how things worked, it doesnt. People use the internet as one of the biggest sources of info next to the newspaper/books. Sadly that also means that a lot of people dont take the extra time to check sources and facts. They read and believe in one single bound. While I totally understand where ZI is coming from, I dont think this is a good way to go about it. I personally feel it will do nothing but increase their loss of incredibility and piss people off even more. Personally there isnt a remedy for this sort of thing. People are gonna believe what their gonna believe and typically we humans are hard headed and stubborn so that doesnt help matters. I guess if ZI does continue with this sort of thing then I guess the next few months will prove interesting for them.
https://www.facebook.com/ZeldaInformer?fref=nf
I have included the link to their site on facebook if anyone cares to read it for themselves. Maybe you will catch something I missed over the whole thing but thats my take on it. I personally wanna know yalls feeling about this so please do share!
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