GameSetWatch: Internet Journalism Sucks in '06

It's Rant Time over at GameSetWatch. Simon Carless is ticked off at the Internet's collective enthusiasm for spreading bullshit and he's not going to take it anymore:

I'll bet my bottom dollar that Joystiq poster Justin Murray saw it on GAF, then just went ahead and dumped it straight onto the site without any further checking. And that, my friends, is where the problem lies.

If you're posting to the most-read game blog around, shouldn't you at least go check Bloomberg.co.uk and make sure you can find the story?
That requires a minimum of effort.

He's referring to a made-up story about Xbox not meeting its sales targets and a technically-not-made-up but very distorted story about PlayStation 4. The real ire comes when he bashes Digg's gaming feed and the wildly inaccurate stories that inevitably end up on the top of the heap, there. From reading some of the comments threads there I get the feeling that there are actually people who rely on Digg for their gaming news. I certainly hope I'm misreading. Because heaven knows they are.

Anatomy of a Goof [GameSetWatch]