I disliked the way anti-gg attacked those right of the bat. The anti "gamer" stuff was vitriolic and reminded me heavily of when I was young and games was a seen as a nerdy thing.
I disliked the way that in the first few days there was a complete blackout from the media. I know it was an act of misogny and a breach of privacy but the universal silence was the wrong thing to do. If the allegations were investigate and shown to be completely false by someone like Patrick this thing could have been over. Instead journalists said the information came from a act that was worse than the allegation hence it would be inappropriate to follow where it led.
Ethic's in journalism is a topic that upsets me a bit. I live in Australia where the Murdoch empire runs pretty much every major newspaper. I've seen what corruption can do in electing the buffoon we have now. And when it comes to video games, it's past isn't clean. Saying that, this is video games. Jeff said a while ago that if you don't trust him, then stop listening and I've taken that to heart. I mostly get my gaming information these days from podcasts and video. Sure a review says 9/10 on IGN but you listen to a podcast and there is various opinions and a discussion and from that I can gleam buying information or appreciation for the art form in a far better format I feel.
At this point I don't trust Polygon, because of how much Microsoft paid for the documentary and for the pro SimCity stance they took. I don't go on twitter blasting them and saying they are biased, I just stopped going there.
I don't know, I'm not pro-gg as I don't feel they have much to stand on but the response by the gaming media was equally disgusting. It's no wonder that when it went to twitter (A horrible platform for debate) it would turn into a shit slinging contest.
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