This is a little old but worth reading.

A week ago, link aggregator Kotaku posted a story called Matt Damon OK With Movie Violence, Not OK With Game Violence. Not content to sit on their “we fit the entire story in to the headline” laurels, Kotaku tacked on a few sentences of body text and threw up a quote from Matt Damon’s mom before ending with a snarky “Double standard, much?”

Queue the outraged comments thread.

Except that Matt Damon never said what the headline says he said.

Tom Chick picks up the trail and after doing what must have been UPWARDS OF 10 MINUTES of research online, works out the real story.

If bloggers are truly the new journalists, we can at least rest assured that they’ll be applying the same standard of fact-checking and error correction that we complain that Fox News applies to the gaming industry.