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Well, lots of vitriolic responses here. Let me say that I don't really have a strong opinion on this article here because I don't really wish to delve into the entire bibliography, but:

1. The points I mentioned are at very least closely related to the topic of the article. They are not totally an argumentum ad hominem, the moment TechRaptor began to commentate on journalistic integrity they opened themselves to comparison of their own journalistic integrity. This does not mean they are wrong about the NYT, it just means there is a possibility of hypocrisy and irony in their accusations.

2. I do not believe this history taints their reporting, only that perhaps greater care should be taken with accepting their claims on similar topics.

3. Please note that the first paragraph of my response carries no value judgement on Techraptor (just a quick, largely neutral history for context), and the second paragraph only includes what I mark as my own personal opinion. I mentioned the "death of author" incident only to note that TechRaptor writers seem to be amateurs (not a sin in any way) who are perhaps not as well antiquated with all industry practices in journalism as NYT writers may be. This does not mean they are wrong.

4. I have also been frustrated when news outlets silently update stories with changes/corrections after those issues are pointed out by myself and others. I have not really engaged over those because the topics of discussion were largely unimportant and I did not really feel invested enough to start a large public argument with a news site or magazine. So I think there is a real issue here to be discussed and I don't wish to silence anyone.

This isn't ad hominem, it's directly related to the topic at hand (ethics, motivations in journalism). Ad hominem doesn't mean the mistakes of the past can't be mentioned, it means that character flaws can't.

NOTE: Techraptor is a site set up by Gamergaters to talk about games and tech news without reprecussions from people who find their views exclusive of progressives, minorities, feminists, and LGBTQ folks. They call this "ethical journalism" because they claim to not receive kickbacks or have special relationships with their journalistic subjects, as they perceive their ideological enemies do.

The quality of journalism is low in my experience, notable moments include the point where writers believed "death of the author"[0] referred to authors dying out as a profession.

[0] A major concept in contemperary literature concerning authorial importance after a work is published, see Rereading Barthes and Nabokov by Zadie Smith for a good intro

The major issue is the revenue stream to the creator was removed. Someone (facebook and/or the page) was profiting directly or indirectly from the work, and not the author. That's copyright infringement and theft. The removal of the attribution is insult added to injury, but far less immediately important.

I sometimes wonder if the tech startup crowd really believes "eyeballs," "exposure," and "active users" are inherently valuable. Maybe if you're shopping around to investors or patrons. Not if you're the other 99% of the population. For them, exposure is just a chance to grow the modest revenue stream they already have, or nothing at all. MAYBE you could get lucky and parlay it into a book deal or something, but probably not.

MUDs are significantly different in that you have to read, solve, and think a lot more rather than the "watch six timers tick down and then hit a button" gameplay loop of most modern MMOs.

But I would also agree that playing RPG games of any description for a large portion of your day is a net negative.

This is a big enough project to justify a bespoke wiki-style system. Perhaps a thesis project for someone, along with tooling to convert existing content from TAOCP. Get some kind of grant to cover employing CS-literate undergrads on a UROP project to do the more difficult data entry and QA.

There's a lot of law in California related to this specific IP topic, but IANAL so maybe someone with legal experience could chime in.

It's a social experiment involving technology. Pretty much directly in the crosshairs of a lot of hacker news readers.

I agree there's disparity in artistic prominence here but I was going for more of a metaphor than a comparison.

Yeah, just like abuse of photocopiers. They're meant for letter size documents only!

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artmarketwatch/warhol-...

Nobody is required to use a given medium in a way that others find "proper" just because they annoy some people. I personally enjoy the stream-of-consciousness feel of this style of self-referential twitter threads for certain types of storytelling or reporting.

Wired Magazine did a stunt where they ran an early ASIC miner as a coffee warming coaster in their office and displayed it on a webcam.

I think this is roughly how demos (in Quake, et al) are recorded. I think most demos also include the state introduced by RNG if the game involves that. It's interesting to think about that idea with relation to functional programming.

    So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
    and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.
    We have heard of those princes' heroic campaigns.

The first word of the first known English document is "so" in this style.

This doesn't apply very well... HN is heavily archived... this comic is about being rude to people for not knowing about something, not justifying shoving the same cyclical content in people's faces repeatedly.

We're only 10 minutes in....

Get flagging, people.

That's one specific (and extremely counter-intuitive and complicated) area where reporters probably have weak domain knowledge. It's somewhat unfair to extend that criticism to every other part of human existence that journalists report on.

I don't follow Al Jazeera America personally (I think they are mostly focused on TV?) but I know there are a lot of parallels to RT.

It's not blind "hate" for Al Jeezera as much as concerns that the parent organization is owned by the rulers of Qatar.

The official cyber force of China is not the biggest suspect in most attacks like this. The loosely controlled civilian hacker force (think privateer pirates) launch most ddos-style attacks on foreign soil.

I can almost guarantee that most of those outlets have more stringent policies regarding fact-checking and quotation than the "average" internet source.

New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, and many others.

I'm sick of this mentality that old-media news is all evil. Fox News and MSNBC are not the industry.

Disclaimer: I do not work in journalism.