One of the things that Eric, the former 343i artist, says in the video is that gaming news sites ran the story without reaching out to him first. Even when he reached out to sites / channels to try and clarify, no one responded.

Unfortunately that's how it goes a lot of the time https://twitter.com/JezCorden/status/1390992190944518145

Professional outlets reporting on a video in Mandarin via a poorly translated forum post is never a good idea. It should be obvious that reaching out would be the first thing to do.

There are plenty of sites that actually do reach out of course and only a minority that don't.

But unfortunately it's still easy for misinformation to spread if one notable site reports on it and then other sites use that one site as a source. Which is what happened in the case above.

I get that the incentive to be first and drive traffic is a management issue though.

People reach out to me for comments / clarity all the time, which is great. But there have also been plenty of times where a random tweet of mine will end up on a website with all context removed + it's been poorly interpreted.

Reaching out saves that headache of corrections.

Also if you're going to use this tweet thread to be like "It's only because every journalist hates Xbox"

Like.. go outside ffs

Also if you're going to use this tweet thread to be like "This is why all journalism sucks and i'm going to send them death threats now"

You also suck and should get help.

Can't believe I have to clarify these two points. But I don't want to leave room for ambiguity here.