Kotaku wrote an article about an upcoming Nintendo DS game called Doki Doki Majo Saiban in which you use the Touch technology to figure out which girls are witches and which are human. In doing so, they linked to a blog-chan article full of NSFW material and photoshops of the game. Kotaku did not bother to warn anyone about these pictures or debunk any of the photoshops. These pictures ended up leaking to the rest of the internet, and suddenly Doki Doki Majo Saiban is a child molestor game for the pedophilic DS demographic. Well, someone finally did their homework.
There is definitely a line of demarcation between blogging and journalism. We're hyperaware of the division. However, news bloggers of any sort have the same responsibility to their readers as journalists when it comes to making sure that what they're posting is factually accurate (or at least tagged as questionable). In fact, considering the wildfire speed with which rumors spread across the tubes of the Internet, we perhaps have more of a responsibility even than journalists. That means taking care (something [Kotaku] didn't do) when linking to sites in other languages that feature disturbing images ... the language barrier makes some of the pictures, which are not a part of the game, seem legit. Blogging should mean checking into things. Blogging should mean explaining what is and is not official. At the very least, we need to be honest. If we don't know whether or not something is official, it should be tagged as such. Photoshop artists are very good at what they do and, for the layman, the difference is often impossible to spot. When it comes to images of undeveloped preteens in sexual situations, the blogger's responsibility to check the facts becomes paramount. Is the traffic from the buzzwords more important than the truth? We hope not.
you use the Touch technology to figure out which girls are witches and which are human.
okay well that does still sound pretty fucking creepy
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At face value, yeah, but for all we know, you could touch her face and she could turn into a dog or something. >_>
"here try this game out, your rub girls' faces in order to determine whether they're witches"
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Kotaku doesn't do homework. DS fan owns them. 
