Plaupius on 02 June 2008
| mike_intellivision said: Freedom of the press is often cited -- but it applies to government, not the private sector. It is ironic though that a game that has scenes more like Hollywood movies is taking an approach that is used for bad movies -- no pre-screenings. Mike from Morgantown |
Yep, private sector need not concern themselves with the freedom of the press. Upholding journalistic integrity is the responsibility of media themselves, that's why some magazines are better at it than others. Magazines who take journalistic integrity seriously, among other things, don't write advetorials, don't mix up opinions and facts, and structure themselves internally, as an organization, in such a way that advertisement sales and advetisers don't affect the journalistic content of the magazine.
Obviously, a lot of the gaming press fails miserably in upholding any kind of standards of journalistic integrity, let alone a high one. Unfortunately, so do many of the "real" newspapers, but that's another story.
