GameCyte’s Journalism Lesson
by Alphaville Herald on 25/04/08 at 8:24 am
GameCyte’s Sean Hollister invited to join Prokofy Neva as a Jr. Author at Second Life Herald
To: Sean Hollister – Assistant Editor, GameCyst.com
From: Pixeleen Mistral, managing editor- Second Life Herald
re: Re: Re: News tip: The TRUE story of NASA’s MMO Funding
Sean,
Apology accepted – assuming you add the link to the Second Life Herald story. I totally understand your concern about about the Nigerian scam spam, but my suggestion is you read each of those e-mails carefully – there may be a hot tip mixed in there somewhere.
If you ever find yourself short on Linden Lab L$ spacebux you might want to consider submitting a piece for publication in the Herald – you could then join luminaries such as Prokofy Neva – an occasional writer who is known as a real stickler for primary sources and fact checking.
Now that the Second Life game gods have updated their TOS to set the stage for banning long time in-world journalists and media outlets that displease Linden Lab, writing for the Herald could provide a certain frisson only available when living in a police state – something I don’t think GameCyte will ever manage. If you decide to take the plunge, let me know.
-pixeleen
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Pixeleen Mistral
Managing Editor, Second Life Herald
reply-to sean@gamecyst.com,
to Pixeleen Mistral
date Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM
subject Re: Re: News tip: The TRUE story of NASA’s MMO Funding
Hello Pixeleen,
I apologize for not including your story first and foremost among my collection of links. I usually pride myself on making a thorough effort to track down the original outlet that broke a story, and find myself humbled and ashamed to find that I did not properly click through the Slashdot post to yours, nor note when I visited your site later that your posting date was earlier than all the others.
That said, I did indeed enjoy your self-referential joke about checking primary sources, and appreciate the link to our story.
If you still desire it, I will add your link.
Regardless, would you mind please removing my phone number and email from your post? My inbox is rapidly filling with Nigerian scams, and while I trust your readers are intelligent and get the joke, I worry others may not.
Sean
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Sean Hollister
Assistant Editor, GameCyte
Prokofy Neva
Apr 25th, 2008
Yes, that’s so true.
And I have such a great role model, too, with factual fact-checked fact-filled headlines like these:
OFFICIAL: Second Life To Become Giant Advertisland
Unclear if Coke or Procter and Gamble will purchase avatar behavior patterns
JimBean
Apr 25th, 2008
> Now that the Second Life game gods have updated their TOS to set the stage for banning long time in-world journalists
Seriously, has anyone ever seen Pix and Prok at the same time? I know they pretend to hate each other, but it’s becoming quite clear what’s going on.
Nacon
Apr 25th, 2008
“I totally understand your concern about about the Nigerian scam spam, but my suggestion is you read each of those e-mails carefully – there may be a hot tip mixed in there somewhere.”
Something like along the line “I heard your momma is ho and like to eat shit” kinda tip? No wonder why you’re failing here.
“…such as Prokofy Neva – an occasional writer who is known as a real stickler for primary sources and fact checking.”
Hahahhahaha, Who’s going to believe an old woman with mental brain damage, surrounded by 400 odd cats, alone in her apartment?
Dr. Wily
Apr 25th, 2008
Whoever wrote this piece of shit needs to go back to English 101. Seriously, you all fucking fail and need to lrn2engrish. BAWWWWWWWing at some larger site’s editor also makes you look like a retard.
Hatshepsut
Apr 28th, 2008
Wow…both of these “articles” smack of pettiness. So he didn’t cross *all* his T’s and dot *all* his I’s. Did he blatantly and obviously plagiarize your work? No? Ok then you keep that between the two of you. You don’t dangle him for all the world because, oops, he forgot to mention your name. Check you local newspapers, hell check the NYT and WSJ, they all have sections in their paper where they correct errors in facts. You don’t see any professional journalist mocking or so-called “calling out” other journalists for making a small mistake.
protip: Learn some professionalism.
RoFLKOPTr
Apr 28th, 2008
FYI, The Second Life Herald is not a news source. I am willing to bet you $100 that he didn’t even know that you guys had a story here, because not too many people go to third-rate blogs run by wannabe journalists to find interesting news stories for their legitimate website. Your need to sling mud at this guy for not citing your article just shows how horrible of a journalist you really are. Go die in a fire.
d3adlyc0d3c
Apr 28th, 2008
Um Roflkoptr, SLH is run by author Peter Ludlow and the editorial manager is Mark Wallace, a REAL journalist who has written for the NY times and a number of other publications. Google it, fucktard.
RoFLKOPTr
Apr 29th, 2008
Alright. So there’s one real journalist. One. And I haven’t seen any articles written by said real journalist. Only the shitty tl;dr editorials by Pixeleen and her fuck buddy Jessica. And, d3adlyc0d3c, we all know that you sure as hell don’t have the grammar skills to write those articles that are under your name, so why even bother putting your name on it? SLH is the epitome of fail journalism, and the only reason why I continue to visit is because it is so damn funny to troll.
Yours Truly,
RoFL
P.S. How’s that DiSSENTiON thing going for you, c0d3c? So I herd you liek e-vendettas.
anon
Apr 29th, 2008
not to mention the original article was from the SLH, which was linked from slashdot
derpa derp derp
d3adlyc0d3c
Apr 29th, 2008
I made a typo above. Mark Wallace is editorial director. Pixeleen is the managing editor.
Witness X
Apr 29th, 2008
Ah, the Herald, the troll’s playground – having fun trolling each other? Meanwhile, the world moves around you unseen, ignoring you (except for this one or that one that is occasionally party-v&, LOLOLOL!)
d3adlyc0d3c
Apr 29th, 2008
I don’t have anything to do with dissention and you know it. It’s not even spelled right. The proper spelling is Dissension. Fucking retards.
anon
Apr 29th, 2008
aww cute jim scha-err..WITNESS XTREME!!!!!!!! thinks the feds care about his internet game <3
RoFLKOPTr
Apr 30th, 2008
@d3adlyc0d3c:
k
Lord Kamina
Apr 30th, 2008
Oh great, now Witness X shows up.
You’d think that he’s learn his lesson aftykl./l;[p]
WITNESS.
Ultram abuse.
Jul 6th, 2009
Ultram side effects.
Ultram. Ultram er. Ultram vs darvocet gc ms.