1Up: State of the NPD: Xbox360

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Sqrl said:

misterd said:

Sqrl said:
If you look at the titles for his articles you can see the guy's agenda pretty clearly...

-PlayStation 3, Doomed to 3rd Place?
-Xbox 360, The Easy Win?
-Wii, Can it be Stopped?

 

The headlines accurately reflect the facts in the analyses. PS3 is in trouble, 360 is in the lead and positioned for a big push if MS pulls the trigger, and Wii does appear to be a juggernaut. If he has an agenda, he's fortunate that it is so well aligned with reality.

The point is that you can influence opinions by discussing some aspects of the situation but not all. The title is a good place to start, as it allows you to set the topic for the article so the reader feels there is no need to go outside the bounds of the topic you have set. So for the PS3 article we are talking about why it is Doomed, for the Wii article we are talking about how to stop it, and for the 360 article we are talking about What it needs to do to succeed. These are the first impressions people will get and a good journalists realizes the impact the title of the story can have on the mindset of the reader.

Basically the title can be just as important as what is said. Now I didn't have any major gripes with the article itself, but that title gives me a good idea of what his personal bias is and from what I have read of the first two articles so far it shows in his writing as well, but I will give him credit for holding it back.

I'm not asking anyone to hang the guy, I just think the titles could have been chosen better..thats all..no big conspiracy here.

 

 

 Sorry to resurrect this one.  Just wanted to say that since I have had a chance to read all of these now I definitely pegged this guy a bit wrong.  I do still think the titles are a poor choice but reading the articles from start to finish one after the other I do think he tried to be as fair as possible to each of the consoles. All in all they are good reads but they don't go over much that someone who reads here regularly doesn't already know.

Just to be clear I didn't expect him to be blatantly biased, I just thought his bias was going to show through subtely. But like I said, I think he was pretty fair in the end, and I jumped the gun on him.