tbf, a lot of those could just be scrapers (bots that repost articles in click-bait sites).

He could have just apologized and ended it there. That would have been the appropriate response. Would they have found him plagiarizing his work in the future? Of course(because the internet is like that), but it wouldn’t have gotten as far as it has now. He called out Jason and said he was doing it “for the clicks”…

well that’s kinda why they need to make such a thing out of this. if they tried to silently sweep it under the rug, the mouthbreathing ETHICS IN GAMES JOURNALISM people would lose their minds

The difference is (at least on serious websites) that they quote the source. Also, many news do just parrot Reuters or other larger news agencies if they don’t have actual staff working on a specific news item. But especially then it usually says “Reuters” somewhere in the article.

Yup; I’m a professor of Rhet-Comp and Literature.

Before I answer the second part of your post, I want to say up front that I’m not casting moral judgment on you. I take plagiarism in my own classes as a personal insult—I regard it as the student telling me I’m not smart enough to catch them cheating. However, since…

For the record, THIS is ethics in games journalism.

They did give some or all of the revenue from the review to the YouTuber. 

I will be linking to this article (and the previous one) for my students during the fall semester when I cover the subject of plagiarism. I try to have a new “real-world” story for them every semester, to demonstrate that plagiarism has professional and legal consequences well beyond the academic sphere, and this one…

It definitely seems like he’s a dude who had somehow rationalized everything that he was doing to the point that he probably felt he had only screwed up only once and any other writing he had copied was actually different for “reasons.”

Because it’s still an active gaming news story.

What’s even better is how he got lazier about it over time. In his older reviews, he at least changes some of the vocabulary and swaps sentences around so whether or not it’s actually stolen could be debatable, by the time Dead Cells came out he was literally copy/pasting entire paragraphs without even changing a…

Hi, Filip, how’s the job search going?

He extended the “challenge” specifically to Kotaku, likely to trigger the Gamergate assholes that hate Kotaku and would assume they were wrong by default.  He didn’t really want people investigating further.

Nuthin. TV studios don’t give back all the money they made selling dvds of the Cosby Show. XD

Eh, in this case it’s because someone noticed the similarity, but my guess is that he was playing the odds (successfully for a long time) that most game writing is both pretty high volume and relatively disposable*, at least when it comes to reviews on major sites. Plus the effort to monitor this manually is probably…

I think Jason/Kirk/Maddy’s comments on last week’s Splitscreen touched on this pretty well. They had a lot to say, but one of the things that stuck with me is that it is just such a taboo thing that nobody ever even thinks to look for it. Like, of course it caught them off guard because why would anybody ever…

I disagree. Filip called out Jason & Kotaku specifically. I feel like they’re obligated to respond to Filip’s arrogance and egotistic attitude.

“You can keep looking, Kotaku, and please let me know if you find anything,” he said in the video, setting off a chain of subsequent discoveries and accusations of dozens more instances of apparent plagiarism. Miucin has since removed the video from his YouTube channel.

I was wondering if this was the eventual outcome of this story. People who take shortcuts and lie rarely do it once. 

I feel bad for all the honest hard working writers at IGN in all this, it seems like in some circles they’re being found guilty by association. Good for Jason and Kotaku that they’re fairly reporting IGN’s response and reaction when discussing this story.