Comments on: CVG blocked in China, says reader

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:03:00 +0000

CVG is pretty reputable, Tonka. And as there’s no way of us corroborating the story, we ran with it. However, if it was like, not dead as anything, we would’ve probably have left it.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:23:31 +0000

Now that I had a think about it I find this rather annoying.
A site get a letter from a reader.
They don’t bother to do any fact checks.
They post a story based on a lie.
This lie is then repeated on other sites.
The lie becomes accepted as truth (?)

Is this how you work with gaming news as well?
The Miyamoto “Sega games look shit” quote trimming springs to mind…

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:56:52 +0000

Funny, I can read it and I’m in Bijing. I guess Shanghai is more restrictive then.

Now do a big news article about that.

By: patlike

patlike — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:22:10 +0000

July 4 weekend, innit. Dead as dodos

By: XDamage

XDamage — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:02:19 +0000

*Yawn* Man, these last few days before E3 are so boring on the gamingnews front.

By: FourZeroSeven

FourZeroSeven — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:50:40 +0000

Shame its not Kotaku either, but thats me also.

By: trav

trav — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:04:21 +0000

Would say its an improvement to have CVG blocked. But that’s me.

By: morriss

morriss — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:43:21 +0000

You really didn’t need it, wz.

By: wz

wz — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:42:58 +0000

Oh, I must have dropped this:

/sarcasm

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:39:51 +0000

I thought there was? Got proof otherwise?

By: wz

wz — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:34:38 +0000

There is no such thing as restrictions on freedom of press in China. Please move along.