I think the cold meds are kicking in because I have no idea what I just read. This is about a guy who just ruined his writing career by calling out some big names and emailing everyone his complaints? Is that it?

Fuck that. This was the best thing that ever happened to this kid, and he was in no way ‘damaged’ to the point of 15 million dollars.

The only problem is they will shut down every academic program (except for the football team and cheerleading squad) to pay for this, and then blame that uppity terrorist Jesus-hating kid from Obamastan.

he won’t, and now the kid looks like a money-grubbing asshat.

If you’re pissing off large developers and getting access to them cut off, are you really serving your readers? Or are you sacrificing long-term relationships for a short-term boost to page hits?

Sure, it’s news. Sure, readers will want to know. But sometimes discretion is the better part of valor...and sometimes…

Word. It’s funny how much shit Kotaku gets considering its one of the few sites that does actual journalism.

I don’t know. This seems so bitchy. If you pissed them off, great. Part of reporting is pissing people off and losing access. It’s part of the game. It’s unseemly to bitch about it like a little bitchy bitch.

Pissing people off isn’t doing good journalism. Informing people is doing good journalism. Going for information and appealing to smart discussions instead of clickbait is good journalism.

Not really, Fox pisses a lot of people off, doesn’t make them right.

How do you know this is true of Dr. V? I have become friends with a teacher who is trans. He is quite clear that he used to be a woman, and uses feminine pronouns in the language we speak (not English; gender works quite differently in this language) when discussing events from that time. You'll have a lot more…

I"m saying that the piece he wrote about the suicide after the fact differs in many ways from the piece he planned to write about investment fraud before she died. There is no reason to ascribe horrible motives to him without proof. Given that people are outraged at the idea that he harmed her by revealing a truth…

I agree with everything you say. The problem is that there is no evidence that he planned to out her previous name/identity, only that he planned to out her lies about credentials and claimed social connections. He could certainly have written a piece that disclosed all her lies, even disclosing that she had a…