I'm not expressing any opinion on the article (and to be clear, newbies, I do NOT work for Bungie -- I'm just a community member like you), but I see that some other folks have touched on an important fact and wanted to expand on that more clearly:
Forbes is not a journalism website. It is a news aggregator and blog site. Despite the font and official-looking headline, this "article" is actually this guy's blog -- and to be clear, anybody can become a Forbes blogger as long as their [url=http://blogs.forbes.com/help/how-do-i-become-a-contributor/]application is accepted[/url]. Forbes bloggers are paid based on [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2011/04/06/how-to-become-a-forbes-blogger/]how many clicks their articles get[/url], and they [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2011/04/06/how-to-become-a-forbes-blogger/]work independently with very little oversight or guidance from Forbes itself[/url]. That's why you see lots of clickbaity-type headlines and tons of spelling/grammar errors in these articles.
This creates a strong incentive to create inflammatory articles that users pass around forums like these so that everyone clicks on them, and there is no system in place designed to ensure the accuracy or truth of the content. The articles generally reflect some level of expertise in the subject matter, but some bloggers try harder to get traffic than to present well-reasoned opinions. Once again -- I'm not saying that's what this guy is doing at all (in fact, I have not even read the whole article yet), but I think it's important that you not call this "journalism." This is blogging, and some bloggers may be more incentivized to draw traffic to their article than to engage in solid journalism.
So take that as you will, but hopefully that provides some perspective here.
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Haven't we been down this exact same road before? With Forbes, too?
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Edited by martyfnemec: 8/20/2014 2:22:35 PMI'll say this a hundred times: Journalists can be bloggers, but never assume a blogger is always a journalist.
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Well said.
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Interesting. Well it looks like forbes has just dropped another peg. I assumed there would have been a little more editing invovled inhouse but I suppose it makes sense. Labour is money.
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Wow, you just taught me something positively ridiculous. People can make an ACTUAL living by trolling on the web.
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Edited by The_Boomsmith: 8/21/2014 10:48:12 AMKA-POW !!!!
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Trolls are OP. Pls nerf.
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Wow, never thought of it like that. Some people on here would be rich as -blam!- lol
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Wow, that's incredibly shady..
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So what you are saying Foman is: Aliens ARE REAL!!!!!!!! [spoiler]WE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!![/spoiler]
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Aliens confirmed real.
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This actually does. It explains a lot really
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Just learned something new.