My point being is that many of the arguments made here and in the past on other threads and more have this idea that if you publish some shitty pieces and later admit that you got it wrong, you're forever trash.
Kotaku isn't owed your readership, and just because they say they are sorry doesn't mean that they are owed closure. But I find it troubling that a lot of people that share your mindset have a "this publication is trash" threshold of two articles that were apologized for and retracted AND kept up, because Kotaku is right, deleting them from the internet wouldn't make sense.
It's insane to me to think that objectively they are trash when they have something like a 10 to 1 ratio of incredible articles that you don't see anywhere else about the games industry.
Stop putting word in my mouth. I never said Kotaku is trash. YOU asked for another example of their trash and I provided you with a link to one. Period, end of sentence. Do not project your poorly thought out theories and logic onto me.
Furhermore, I said reach out to Atlus or Nintendo for clarification. They posted this article without getting any such clarification. It should have been held until said clarification was recieved. This wasn't some rush against the clock for a story you didn't want to get beat on. The entire story is because the woman
thought she heard a slur in a song. So, instead of getting clarification, "let's come out and use my platform of one he biggest video game publications to accuse this singer whose native language I don't even understand, and by proxy Atlus and Nintendo allowing it in their game, of making a slur againt disabled people."
What the ever loving fuck.
Of course they apologized for that nonsense - if the standards of journalism was higher it would have actually been a fireable offense - but the damage had been done. It's hard to unhear once it's put in your head.
