Intel Pulls Advertising from Gamasutra over #Gamergate

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sundin13 said:

I don't think that is even remotely close to being true. As Jim Sterling said, most people in the game industry are just gamers who were lucky enough to be able to make some money talking about games. I don't know about you, but I would love to be paid to play games and hang out with gaming industry folks. I think you are deflecting just as much as a lot of gaming industry folks are...

While I do think there needs to be reform (in the direction of open-ness and accountability), I don't think there is any mass conspiracy or that gaming media are inherently evil. They are just gamers, and I've seen plenty of gamers say stupid stuff, it just wasn't thrown on the front page of a major game site.

I agree, for the most part.  That's why I think it's time to stop using the word "journalism" in relation to the gaming media.  I don't even mean that as an insult, I just think that most of these people are doing kind of a third-party form of PR.  As we've seen recently, even when there is a scandal, a lot of them chose to ignore it.  That's not journalism, which is actually fine, as long as they don't pretend to be journalists.  

Of course, they still need a degree of trust-worthiness, or they lose all credibility with the audience.  The same with being more transparent.  However, I personally never get outraged about these publications doing this or that because my expectations are low to begin with.  To me, they're just collections of random bloggers.