| ithis said: So you do agree that this is a common practice in journalism, yet conveniently, in this care, you will choose to say that the journalist made an error. How logic and unbiased of you. |
It's absolutely unbiased. We have Stringer's exact words (would was just added, it didn't replace anything) quoted. And we have a word added by a reporter who is attempting to interpret what Stringer said. Basically Stringer said the PS3 is losing money and the reporter interpreted Stringer's comment as meaning the PS3 would lose money if there was a price drop. Just because something is a common practice doesn't mean it doesn't sometimes lead to a journalist changing the meaning of a quote by misinterpreting it.
ramuji said:
So, do you then disregard everything else written in the article that isn't a direct quote from Stringer?
That's not what I'm doing at all. I'm giving more weight to an exact quote from the CEO of Sony regarding their PS3 business, over some random reporter's interpretation of what that quote means. What a silly straw man argument. Just because the reporter said Stringer arrived in Idaho on Tuesday and that's not a quote from some witness/source doesn't mean I disregard it. I assume it's true barring any evidence to the contrary from someone who has more expertise on the matter. If there was a direct quote from Stringer's personal travel secretary that he actually arrived on Monday, I would place more weight on that. If some random person said Stringer arrived on Monday, I would assume they were wrong and the reporter was correct. Here it's a direct quote from the CEO of Sony and one journalist's interpretation of that quote, that's an easy choice.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
