How come, everything in todays world revolves about public image control, and trying to seem like sonething that you are not?
@KawaiiAurora, welcome to the forum . From my perspective, I'm not sure that an official response was needed (others might see this differently). I'm also not sure how to say this in the most discrete way possible - but if I read a paragraph of text, and all I can think about, when I do so is "public image control measure" - thats hardly a good sign.
For the record, owning a Switch - or not isn't the issue here, its more about journalistic integrity (check multiple sources, if you quote them - quote them correctly, and don't make the reader attribute information to you as a primary source, if you arent). Owning a Switch for doing reports on homebrew projects, might be valuable from other perspectives such as "independant verification of information" or creating your own image or video material, for your articles.
Kind of the stuff you need more than 2 minutes of internet research for.
I've used wololo as a news source in the past, expecially because of their rather in depth reporting, but I also accept the fact, that bloggers at least sometimes dont need to follow journalistic standards, and that journalistic standards might even be decreasing in general as a result of economic pressures (f.e. "be first" becoming more important).
As far as voicing public criticism goes, I might still resort to doing that on venues I choose, which might not be "letters to the editor". As long as it is fact based, and doest fall under anything that could be seen as slander, I believe its perfectly ok to do so.
My motives might f.e. include - priming people to employ more of a critical mindset when "reading news", or also looking at primary sources if they are available. For those a "letter" to the editor, might not be appropriate.
I appreciate, that you do follow up on the reactions on your reports in the place you get most of your Nintendo related news from, it shows that you do care about what you put out - but please don't try to couple that with an intention to modify peoples behavior, to minimize the fallback for problematic reporting wololo might have done in the past. As a "news outlet" its fine to not always be directly available for a back and forth with anyone who might have something to say about your work - its actually kind of part of the "staying impartial" concept. But if you see criticism, that you think can grow from, by all means, get better out of your own volition.
I'd be more impressed if your reports showed higher standards (sounds incredibly snobbish, but its not meant that way), than with any (personal) mea culpa you'd had to put out.
I guess I'll post wololo.net links again, if thats worth mentioning - but I'm but a small figurehead - its not that I'd expect this to interest many people one way or another... I'm unimportant.
