Gaming “Journalism” Gone Fanboy

[Sardauk]

elprincipe said:

Sardauk said:

Badassbab said:
Let me tell you something about gaming journalists. They are paid to big up their respective console and speak crap about other consoles.

I remember back in the days journalists would do just that and when they moved on and got employed on a rival console magazine they would simply speak rubbish about the console they used to support.

 

Lets simplify, "gaming journalism" doesn't exist. It is about consumer goods, this no journalism to me.

Exactly.  Real journalism is about reporting facts, reminding people about history, exposing lies and the like.  Game "journalism" (as you rightly note it doesn't exist) merely regurgitates fanboy rantings and product whoring like clockwork.

 

 

Right. I even stopped my Gamespot subscription the day they fired Jeff Gerstmann.