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The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism
Anonymous Coward writes "TG Daily has its weekly videogaming column up, and this week the author is attacking what he terms The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism. From the article: '...the formulaic, child-minded writing-for-the-lowest-common-marketing-denominator style that encapsulates 99% of the mainstream videogame press is a load of crap ... Rather than being critics who add to the industry as film and music journalists arguably did back in the heady days of the 50's - 70's... videogame journalists are mere extensions of the marketing machine, pushing even the most mediocre of games into a good light with the public in previews and then trashing them for sport to see how many good puns can be dredged out of the 500 words which the author really doesn't want to have to write.'"
I supported my assertions, and I know what I'm talking about. I sold my first feature article more than twenty years ago. I have years of professional editing experience. You're some punk without a clue and with an axe to grind -- probably a friend of the kid in question. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
The linked article is badly written. I have more than adequately explained why. You are more than welcome to disagree. You'd be wrong (and are wrong), of course, but that's your issue, not mine.
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Whether the world needs a grammar checker is less than irrelevant. The kid in question does.
What you need is a pair of balls and two functioning brain cells.
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It's called hyperbole. I get the fact that you have difficulty with rhetorical constructs common among people who are old enough to have grown a man's hair, but igorance is no excuse for beliigerence to one's betters.
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