I agree that the journalist has to maintain credibility and their article being deleted is a good thing, I just think the event is a non-story and falls right in line with how people are letting their imaginations run wild about what this game will actually be. It feels like No Man's Sky where people are taking the information available and running with it and describing their fantasies of how it's going to be their GOTY due to Extrapolation A, Fantasy B, and Speculation C. I'm with you guys on the journalist the integrity that comes with being a journalist. I'm just saying that when I saw that it was all just baseless fantasy, though, I shrugged and thought "well, par for the course".
I don't totally agree, for example here, the article sparked a lot of talk about a still unconfirmed day/night cycle, needlessly rising expectations, and doing so is a disservice to the game because people will believe a lie because a journalist said it, and then be disapointed if it's not there, and some(most?) of them won't blame the journalist but the game.
Like, if today I tell you as a random guy on the internet that I already have a copy of DS, I'm halfway through the game, and I tell you that not only there's a day night cycle, but also at the mid point of the game you actually go to space and visit the moon and Mars in the second half of the game, and you believe me. come release time, you'll realise I have lied, that would be not cool for you right? But you'd be the only person I lied to, and I'm not a journalist, so basically I would have kinda trolled you. Now if a journalist does the same, there are more implications, so I don't think it can be considered a non-story. Not a big one either, but not a non story :)