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

[Mr Khan]

steverhcp02 said:

kowenicki said:

RolStoppable said:

The gaming media is consistently unprofessional, so the basic premise of the original post is flawed.

Bang on, but I re-iterate...

I  blame the audience... it is simply too immature to deserve or warrant a decent product from the press.

Apprently youve never read the comments on CNN or Yahoo or Fox News' website.

"real" journalists involved in politics or "news" are catering to a much more delusional, immature and scary audience.

Bingo. The only difference between this and gaming journalism is that in this case, the scary audience doesn't ascend to become the journalists, which is the case with gamers and journalism. As Scoobes said, gaming journalists are just forum-dwellers that get paid to do what we do every day: review games and report the news, and they honestly do precious more than we forum-dwellers do outside of in-person interviews and the ability to attend E3, because most of their "news" is just regurgitated press releases and the occasional GAF leak otherwise, and the game industry coddles them with review copies of games so that they can post reviews quicker than the end consumer, but that's all