The IGN Plagiarism Fiasco -- CLS Side Quest
Watching the professional destruction of someone is never comfortable and never easy. But if you tilt your head just so, and look at things through a certain lens, terrible situations can often be instructive. The Filip Miucin-IGN fiasco that engulfed games media over the last week taught us that while one person’s selfishness and laziness is a story in and of itself, it’s the potential collateral damage -- and all of the innocent people caught up in it -- that matter most.
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The following videos were used in this episode of Side Quest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghICiNJCaLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKF6xnvaCsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz8TSUehpi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_PPI9e0Nnw (Deleted)
Bibliography/Reading List:
https://kotaku.com/ign-pulls-review-after-plagiarism-accusations-1828157939
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/3/11/the-consequence-of-plagiarism-it-seems/
https://kotaku.com/former-ign-reviewer-responds-to-plagiarism-allegations-1828273219
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/08/the-last-guardian-cancelled
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/09/the-last-guardian-an-apology
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/21/gaming-the-system-how-a-gaming-journalist-lost-his-job-over-a-negative-review/#3b8988c64f25