PlayStation VR 2 will be great, but don’t be fooled — it won’t be cheap

Covering consumer technology news isn’t just about what gets published — it’s also about what doesn’t get published, either because it’s too minor for readers to care about, or likely to be inaccurate. As a journalist, I wouldn’t be doing my job if I uncritically shared every piece of nonsense that came across my desk, and I always try to respect my readers’ time by focusing on stories that both matter, and have long-term credibility.

One of the toughest calls I have to make each week is passing on a story that would be interesting if true, and might be worthy of your attention, but likely isn’t accurate based on other facts I’m aware of. In those cases, I either choose to write something to put the new claim in context, or write nothing. The latter option is a calculation — a belief that the report’s original author can write whatever he or she wants, but will turn out to be both wrong and largely ignored, harming no one except his or her own readers, and then hopefully not much.