It has been a while since the "The Mittani.com" showed up. There was quite a tempest in a teapot about this on the forums with pleges being made to always or to never read it - that it will be the worst or the best source of information.

Things cooled a bit down, so which "Newspage" is taking the lead? Did Eve24 change? What are you reading?

After reading a David Lane and N.azi reference in the closing words of this article on TheMittani I will probably not frequent this page any further.
F.uck N.azis
F.uck David Lane
and
F.uck You

Edit:
And F.uck Pizza

After reading a David Lane and N.azi reference in the closing words of this article on TheMittani I will probably not frequent this page any further.
F.uck N.azis
F.uck David Lane
and
F.uck You

Edit:
And F.uck Pizza

What you want them to censor stuff?

There really isn't a contest...

This is like comparing Al Jazeera and Fox News.

There really isn't a contest...

This is like comparing Al Jazeera and Fox News.

Both have some interesting articles and while themittens.com is better written, the name really does show Goonswarms need for attention.

Exactly. They're both terrible.

ISD Dorrim Barstorlode as you will delete this one as well I will also address it to you.
I WILL bring that to the attention of the german speaking gaming media. You WILL have bad press about it. Last but not least it will be YOUR fault.

Like most people, I don't read either....Who wants to listen to a couple infantile children spew crap about a game....

Al Jazeera would win by a country mile.

They did a really good job of covering the Libyan uprising.

I would no more read The Mittani.com than I would read a newspaper by R. Murdoch and his acolytes and expect to find impartial news reportage.

Al Jazeera would win by a country mile.

They did a really good job of covering the Libyan uprising.

I would no more read The Mittani.com than I would read a newspaper by R. Murdoch and his acolytes and expect to find impartial news reportage.

I've seen both sites and I'm not impressed by either. Most of it is battle reports from nullsec which is incredibly dull and boring. Like listening to Rimmer talk about a game of Risk. Not at all interesting.

Sometimes one site or another will have an interesting article, but those are few and far between. I've seen dev blogs written with more frequency than interesting EvE articles on these sites.

I've seen both sites and I'm not impressed by either. Most of it is battle reports from nullsec which is incredibly dull and boring. Like listening to Rimmer talk about a game of Risk. Not at all interesting.

Sometimes one site or another will have an interesting article, but those are few and far between. I've seen dev blogs written with more frequency than interesting EvE articles on these sites.

Hey anyone noticed that evenews24 is getting all biased pro highsec? pubbies gonna pub?
*just take a look at the quality whine in the comments

Themittani isn't that great, or entirely neutral, however Evenews24 is so abysmal it's impossible not to beat.

Honestly a 4chan thread about Eve would be less full of tards than Evenews24.

I read themittani.com, but only because the darker page theme makes it easier to read in low light. If I could figure out how to make evenews24 look dark, I would read both.

Actually themittani.com is the next expansion of Goon metagaming.

Themittani.com can be lined up in a list that features Xinhua and Prawda. All news agencies of totalitarian systems.
You can find good and decent news on Xinhua as you can find on themittani.com. But keep in mind that they are propaganda plattforms in first place.

Some Bloggers even stopped their own services to write/work exclusively for themittani.com. Source of prove
Your articles are the wrap for Goon propaganda, half-truth stories, plain lies. Metagame.

Even worse you grant the site and Goon articles credibility with your work. Don't fool yourself. You are nothing but mules to them.

The Goons play the metagame well with themittani.com. Spreading their influence and control into areas that weren't effected before. Seeding their weird thoughts into the minds of the unwary reader.

Everything the Goons do is for their entertainment (lolz). Most of that is gathered from the much larger player base that isn't Goon. Themittani.com is in no way different.

Don't read there!
Don't work for them!

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Wow. Being compared to Xinhua or Pravda. That's pretty impressive. You do know that we (themittani.com)

• Are not connected with Goonswarm, just another project.
• Called it themittani.com because it's a premade brand, all explained on the about page
• Have Writers from all over New Eden from all different corps, alliances and sec zones

The one thing that I have never understood, are the people who seem to assume the whole site is just the mittani in a dark room writing every article. seeing every thing that goes on in the site. TheMittani.com is a busy and substantial site with independent news desks, editors, proofreaders who answer to other people in the hierarchy than The Mittani.
But of course, I could be all part of the conspiracy, and another Mittani alt like everyone who writes for the site....

Mr. Muvila, i don't suspect you to be any alternative character of the notorious TheMittani. But when i look at your colors. Yes sir, you are part of the conspiracy since you belong to the Goons and everything they stand for. So does themittani.com which is part of the metagame of the Goons and SA to accomplish their objectives within EVE and all the other games that feature articles on that site.

Thank you for proving my point about the former independent writers and other personal who fell for propaganda trick, that the site wouldn't be part of the metagame. But it is.
As i pointed out: They are the veil to delude the unwary. Themittani.com is some kind of smart psy-ops of the Goons. Pure metagame!

The fact that I a goon is incidental, I am in fact the lead developer for the site. I built that damn thing. I am one of the few people who is intrinsically connected to the site, but not involved in content production or management. I just work the machinery. We even have people who don't play eve but report on other games.

But whatever you're just going to say "But gooooooon! "

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The fact that I a goon is incidental, I am in fact the lead developer for the site. I built that damn thing. I am one of the few people who is intrinsically connected to the site, but not involved in content production or management. I just work the machinery. We even have people who don't play eve but report on other games.

But whatever you're just going to say "But gooooooon! "

I don't criticize you, your work building that website or running it.

It is the intent of the side combined with the name theMittani and the developer being a Goon which provides the affair a fishy smell.

For what stands theMittani?
Metagaming, espionage, deception, scams, providing entertainment for Goons & Something Awful forums and accumulation of wealth for Goons by exploiting game mechanics and market manipulations (OTEC, ice, ...). Indeed theMittani has become a brand but it only sounds well for Goons and their pets.

So what do we have to expect of a website called themittani.com?

The very same!

Manipulation, deception, metagaming and lolz for Goons & Something Awful community.


Sorry, but I have to quote myself.

Awesome.

This is getting boring and repetitive now so I will simply paste the part of the about page you were to lazy to read.

I imagine that there is a natural presumption that the site name was his decision, and that it is an example of the industrial-scale hubris that led to GoonswarmGÇÖs capital system being renamed GÇ£MittaningradGÇ¥. In fact, I chose the name despite his concerns. Mittani himself wanted the site to be called something very worthy and descriptive like GÇ£Internet Spaceship NewsGÇ¥ or the like: dull enough that I genuinely canGÇÖt remember.

GÇ£The MittaniGÇ¥ has become a brand: one of the most recognisable and googled phrases or labels in Eve, it simply has recognition value that we would have struggled to create with anything else. I wanted us to profit from the better part of a decade of work and history that many new websites would give their right arm to possess.

Seems you might not fully grasp about what i was talking. There was no need to read about. It's not the character TheMittani, he might had some success and influence in the past but right now he's some kind of figurehead or brand as you put it. It's the thing he became the brand for. That's the thing that leaves the bad taste.

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Winning EvE?

Both have some interesting articles and while themittens.com is better written, the name really does show Goonswarms need for attention.

(...)
I would no more read The Mittani.com than I would read a newspaper by R. Murdoch and his acolytes and expect to find impartial news reportage.

The Mittani.com is biased. Will always be biased.

A couple of months ago the CFC started to turn EN24 in to its current state. It was all done to make sure The Mittani.com would be released and people would read it.

If any of you remember, earlier this year CFCs big plan was to take over all media outlets that were focusing on EvE. The only way his website would be viewed was to have the no brain masses of the CFC slam, bash, degrade, talk **** and beat the publics perception of EN24 in to the ground. Why you ask? Because its not CFC controlled and they couldnt control what was posted on the site.

This means bad CFC propaganda was being distributed to the casual Eve player. Which is something that would hurt mittens Ego, and he couldnt have that.

Initially mittani.com looked as if it would indeed be a source of less biased, or at least multilateral news. But that pretense has clearly been dropped now.
Their mods have also started banning ips of critical commenters.

Well my Brothers friend said that CCP were actually Lizard people and that Miri Amantonur was one of their agents

Hearsay and speculation are all well and good, but not really valid now are they? , I like how you are willing to accept them on their own merit and nothing more. Don't forget that in addition to that we have spies inside CCP, we rules the CSM like some sort of puppet organisation, we have a say in every expansion that comes out so that we can make sure they benefit us and I'm sure we're right outside your bedroom window now.

Fascinating reading. Let me sell you my tinfoil hat, it's SUPER EFFECTIVE.

"Some random bored goon poster told me I'm paranoid, THIS IS EVIDENCE THEMITTANI.COM IS A PROPAGANDA FRONT!"

That is rather poor argument sir. I expected more of you.

You're an idiot

I think it's time for a recap since the Goons left the field to find some valid evidence.

Let's beginn with some facts:

1. The origin of the Goons is the Something Awful community (SA).
2. The top priority is entertainment for the Goons, which they generate from anyone who isnGÇÖt Goon.
3. Some Goons are good in metagaming.
4. A notorious figurehead of the Goons had to step down from CSM7 after some strange statement at Fanfest 2012 which violated the EULA.
5. The Goons founded a news website earlier in 2012. ItGÇÖs called themittani.com. Awesome name isnGÇÖt it? Well they tell us they took it, because it is something like a brand and has a lot of history. Well at least a strong history of metagaming, if you ask me. But can someone else combine anything good with the name TheMittani or Goons besides Goons, Test and their pets? Ok they destroyed BoB, but they turned into BoB reloaded ever since.
6. They have recruited a ton of staff for themittani.com and try to become a main source of news about EVE.

So much about the facts.

With no representation at CSM7 Goons needed some other tool to influence the masses. What is better than the media to influence them?

SA has a vast pool of human resources. Vile Rat (rest in peace) was one example for it, employed by the US State Department. TheMittani himself is a lawyer. IGÇÖm sure there are some media professionals in SA too. So we have the critical mass to plan and execute a well-planned media offensive to gain/maintain influence.

The site was in bad need of freelancer writers and staff. CanGÇÖt tell how they convinced the guys but they got them. So they got some viable and some less viable sources to generate a steady flow of articles.
Somewhere between that is the one or the other article of the Goons. Et voil+á metagaming, half-truths, lies and propaganda of the Goons well surrounded by independent stuff.

Those Freelancers provided them with a nice cover and veil.

If you ask me themittani.com is something like Xinhua or Pravda.
If you ask the Goons all of the above is a conspiracy theory.

There are a lot of conspiracy theories around, which can be proved to be wrong. NASA and independent sources are able to deliver a ton of proves that humans were on the moon. The 9/11 commission delivered tons of proves that it was a terrorist attack.

What presented the Goons so far about their news site? A handful of Freelancers, who were convinced to work for them and a self-written statement about TheMittani being a brand these days.

Don't read there!
Don't work for them!

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I am loathe to return to this thread because it's reached levels of stupidity that just hurt me, but as I look my notifications, there's a whole heap of replies to this thread. This one actually illicited laughter from me.

So lets get this straight.

1. We're smarter than you
2. We're more connected than you
3. We're more organised than you
4. We're running a thoroughly successful site
5. We have a rainbow of Independent writers
6. We garner over 1,000,000 hits a month
7. We cover multiple games
8. Our Sole purpose is just to further the cause of some Nullsec alliances
9. We are trying to control your mind for our own schemes

I don't even need to say any more.

Rule of acquisition #211:
Employees are rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.
Source: http://www.sjtrek.com/trek/rules/

Thanks for helping me prove the whole idiot thing

You're an idiot

TheMittani is no brand outside of EVE and maybe SA(, yet).

You struggle to establish it within the game media scene.

Oh but because I love waving this around

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/277294754612539392

Oh but because I love waving this around


https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/277294754612539392

Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?

Not only you promote his games on your site.
He is also a player within the CFC, as he admitted himself.

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/207701661886586881

I would take those compliments with a grain of salt, if I was one of your readers.

Thank you for providing this information.

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Didn't you know? Steve Balmer is in Pandemic Legion.

(he isn't really)

mittani: very intelligent guy. clear, focused articles with overarching themes.

his contributing writers: SA forum lurkers moonlighting as EVE players moonlighting as writers. if anyone is editing those articles, they must be saying, "... ****-it, just publish."

thanks. I would never make it a goal to **** off the beehive, or at least I don't know why I would, and I swear it wasn't a troll comment.

I understand deadlines, and I also know what a paper looks like after a hasty edit. it's the smaller things like grammar and spelling errors that raise questions in my mind; I'm not counting the higher-level deficiencies. (such as clarity of thought, flow, active vs passive voice, and main themes in an article).

I remember the public announcement of openings for contributing writers. after half the articles made me wonder how so many errors got through an editor, (errors that are quickly caught by a fresh pair of eyes) I figured:

the average goon writing for mittani, and no editor.

ANyway...

evenews24 is too bright in my dim room.

also ridden with teenager writing style, while lacking a redeeming figurehead such as mittani (and riverini does NOT satisfy that billing)

some gems, though. I enjoy Jester's Treck in particular.

you do not represent "my eve" and you don't belong here... please stop trying to look important, because you're not

[EDIT] please ccp think hard about what this means to your forums... they bash you with their articles http://themittani.com/features/rise-and-fall-caod

please ban threads involving the mentioned sites

my quote interdiction spheres are preventing you from warping away, I have you tackled



^ i'm interdicting your thoughts with forum kung-fu

ty for conceding posting zero content ccp please ban

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