I care about ethics in games journalism too, I think it matters that mega corps are buying opinion pieces to turn articles into extended marketing. it's just that the phrase became a dog whistle and justification for gamer gate and all that fucked up shit that came with it. and so now, I do not care about 'ethics in games journalism', I care about the total abolition of private property which will behead every publisher CEO that exists, thus solving the problem
It is funny how Jason Shreier, a man who actually looks at the industry with a critical eye, is absolutely loathed by KotakuInAction types.
Sorry, that's what journalism is, or should be, a reporting of factual information based on things the journalist found out. KIA weirdos just want journalists to uncritically report what video game companies tell them to report and then say whether a game is "objectively" good or bad.
Same could be say about Jim Sterling. They constantly attack the industry and call out the reason for microtransactions and shitty games being a product of capitalism, but then KIA goes absolutely nuts about them. It's like they think EA is just an evil company who loves being evil for no reason.
I mean I cared about that, but the real version with publishers buying reviews, not the version about hounding random bloggers.
I care about ethics in games journalism too, I think it matters that mega corps are buying opinion pieces to turn articles into extended marketing. it's just that the phrase became a dog whistle and justification for gamer gate and all that fucked up shit that came with it. and so now, I do not care about 'ethics in games journalism', I care about the total abolition of private property which will behead every publisher CEO that exists, thus solving the problem
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It is funny how Jason Shreier, a man who actually looks at the industry with a critical eye, is absolutely loathed by KotakuInAction types.
Sorry, that's what journalism is, or should be, a reporting of factual information based on things the journalist found out. KIA weirdos just want journalists to uncritically report what video game companies tell them to report and then say whether a game is "objectively" good or bad.
Same could be say about Jim Sterling. They constantly attack the industry and call out the reason for microtransactions and shitty games being a product of capitalism, but then KIA goes absolutely nuts about them. It's like they think EA is just an evil company who loves being evil for no reason.
9/10 --IGN