The gaming media is unprofessional and inconsistent and I'm sick of it.

[Doobie_wop]

Scoobes said:

Ask a gaming journalist what they are and I doubt they would say "journalist", because, let's face it, they're not. They're enthusiast press and little better than the forum posters you find on many websites. In fact, I find some forum posters much better at presenting actual information than many gaming websites.

Kowenicki raises a good point too. The target audience is too immature to warrant professional journalism, but at the sametime, until more professional websites/magazines present themselves, the audience will remain somewhat ignorant and immature.

Also, the internet hasn't helped much. Too many "gamers" with all their prejudices and opinions form websites, flogging their baseless ideas as facts. Not that their aren't positives of this, but their's no quality control anymore.

You'd be surprised. Sites like Giant Bomb admit to being enthusiast press, but then you have the writers on sites like 1UP, IGN and Eurogamer that refer to themselves as journalist. They are though, most of them study in the correct fields, some of them have written for other magazines, newspapers and the games industry for years. Most of them aren't bad writers, it's just that they don't seem to take the job too seriously. As Koweniki said, the audience is immature and so the writers respond to that behaviour with lower quality work, mainly because they can get away with it.