GamersWithJobs On ‘Copy And Paste Coverage’

Over at Games With Jobs, a (fairly) recent post discusses the apparent ‘Copy And Paste Coverage’ for a story about a recent Gamers With Jobs podcast in which Bioshock’s Ken Levine discussed the motion control on Factor 5’s PlayStation 3 title Lair.
This is a subject I’ve discussed before - how story linking can go tragically wrong, and the site’s Sean ‘Elysium’ Sands explains it like this: “What I’ve seen from the online news gathering business is that it is a casual and incestuous affair of farming from a handful of sites that do actual news gathering and simply rephrasing, which, as stories move through the chains, creates any number of potential inaccuracies and problems.”
And so how? “Take the instance of our recent podcast with Ken Levine and what would become a story about his supposed defense of the PS3 game Lair. During our Games You Can Play Now segment […]

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