That's not even a video game specific term so they fail all around

ORIGINAL INTERNET PROTOCOLS XD

We all know IP stands for Innings Pitched

/Spooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorts!!

And these are the guys brokers and investors that help dictate our economy take tips from.


Were f*cked aren't we.

lmfao

Oh yes Jim, they are horrible. God only knows the great Jim Sterling has never slipped up or written a piece of garbage.

@testmunky
thatsthejoke

Man this article made me laugh so hard I couldn't finish my own thoughts.

I meant to say these are the guys that our brokers and investors that decide the path of economy take tips from.

Internet protocols, well at least they didn't say irritated pikachus or something along those lines( I would have died laughing)

Hooray for Copy Editors.

wow that was hilarious, I can't believe how stupid people are getting. The fact that they let it get published like that shows big problems.

Oh journalism.

Simple mistake. IP does stand for Internet Protocol, But in this case it doesn't.

Much like how CP can stand for Communist party or Child pron. Those things are totally different.....or are they?

Really? Really? The Wall Street Fucking Journal? I mean.... c'mon. That's just laziness.

@Cor E

Yeah, and most people like to get haughty and act as if "real journalists" (presumably those who write for publications like the Wall Street Journal) are infinitesimally more skilled and better at research and more accountable and blah blah blah - yet apparently, even WSJ employs people who can't so much as fact-check a simple acronym.

Fact error, -80 points, automatic F.

That's how they handle it in JOURNALISM school, sorry Wall Street Journal.

How could an editor read this and not say "Hey, thats not right." I mean really!

Online destinations too.

POWERFUL.

I think and editor somewhere is getting his ass chewed on right now

@CapnCrunk
IP (Iambic Penetration) - The rhythm and force of penetration follows a pattern of stressed and unstressed strokes.

That's right, this shit just got Shakespearean.

Also, does anybody else find it ironic that Lord Farnsworth Douchington The Third of The Wall Street Journal (who I can only assume, through my deep fact checking which consists of making shit up, wrote the story) failed to identify an acronym where "intelligence" was the first word?

Apparently, IP could mean a lot of things

That's not a copy editor thing. That's a content editor thing. There's nothing grammatically wrong with that sentence.

I laughed so hard.

I love it when people who don't understand technology try to talk about it like they do.

dear me

So, first time poster, long time reader. Hi.

As a college graduate of journalism, certain things irk me. Such as this article. As well as this quote.

"Unhappy byproduct of a job that involves posting an article every twenty minutes with news that happens ridiculously fast. " - Jim

Bullshit.

Walter Cronkite said something along the lines of better be right than first. That may seem taken out of context because he worked in broadcast, but it still fits in all aspects of journalism today. The mistake in the WSJ? Yeah, that sucks. Our world already has enough misinformation to sort through, and a publication like the Wall Street Journal shouldn't let things like that get by.

But to simply brush off your (not personally you, Jim, but Dtoid as a whole) mistakes as an "unhappy by-product" is sloppy, unprofessional and irresponsible. This article in particular is 108 words without the quote. You're telling me, and the rest of the community, that you can't spend 30 seconds re-reading out loud your work so that your site's integrity can stay in tact?

It's because of the speediness of blogging, the internet and trying to be the first to break the story that we are swimming in the misinformation I touched on earlier.

I love Destructoid. I come here every couple of hours to get some gaming news. But you can't make excuses for juvenile mistakes, and you can't rightly justify something like this (neither can the Journal). Blogging has quickly become the place where many of our generation get their news. We at least deserve the best. It doesn't have to be the fastest, but it damn well better be right, in both fact and grammar.

Just my two cents.