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On Videogame Journalism

Posted by michael on from the and-other-oxymorons dept.

Michael_Blessed writes "The most incisive critique of games journalism currently out there. I would say that as I participated, but there's some real illuminating stuff in there. And it's all true - I should know, being a games 'journalist' myself." It's a whole long series - read all 11 parts.

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  1. Listen to this man by GreenCrackBaby · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most people who haven't read the story will probably see your comment as flamebait, but as someone who tried to read the article I wish I could mod your comment "+10 bang on".

    As an example of this guy's excellence in journalism, let me quote you some text he wrote regarding the topic of "Role Playing":

    This is not to say that people, individually, are not intelligent. They are, for the most part. I don't know that I've met many who are truly apathetic, either. It's just that we're all abused.

    We're all hurt children. We don't know who to believe, so we grasp for the most comforting, available parents we've got. We are raised not to believe in our own judgement, and to defer to Nabisco. To Tom Brokaw. To the Government. To Science. To God. To the experts.

    Life is above us. We don't know any better.

    :puke:

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    "The market alone cannot provide sufficient constraints on corporation's penchant to cause harm." -- Joel Bakan