Heh. :) (Destiny)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 16:25 (3558 days ago) @ Fuertisimo

That's a fairly cynical reading of things my friend. You really don't trust journalists to accurately report on things.

I don't automatically trust them, nor do I immediately assume they are false. I think it's more about skepticism rather than cynicism, and it's very much case-by-case. There's been plenty of times that I've found an article insightful and worth ruminating on. There's also been plenty of times where I feel like I'm just reading an opinion with out-of-context quotes, sometimes even seeing an article later on with the source of such quotes clarifying what they really meant. Heck, I've read articles on events that I actually witnessed that didn't seem to relate what happened well. :)

When I do read the news, and it's regarding a controversial or complex topic, I like to read multiple articles from different sources to find the overlapping facts. But whenever the writer's voice becomes prominent and the facts recede, and I don't have anything to compare it with, I tend to not put much stock in it until I see otherwise.

I know that I worked on a fairly simple game for a couple years with a friend and if you had interviewed us both afterward you probably would have gotten very different stories on what happened in that time!

And this article was concerning a story that spanned 4 years long or longer, involved hundreds of different people and disciplines as they worked together to build a very complex game. Yet this article took around 10 minutes to read. What I got out of it was some anonymous quotes (that could have come from the coffee-machine repairman for all I know), previous speculations, and the author's quick spin on what could be a massive tale. To me, none of those things are really helpful or enlightening. I don't think it's all necessarily wrong, I just don't know what's true.

If this article had been longer, more in-depth, gave more context to the quotes, and more distinctly separated what the reporter had discovered and what he concluded, I might have had a completely different reaction. :)

I'm hoping Cody's "History of Bungie" novel that he's mentioned before will be much more introspective. ;)