| Jumpin said: I personally think that gaming journalism has really improved since video streaming services, especially Youtube, became a factor. Video journalism, like AVGN simply didn't exist before. GameTrailers and the thousands of channels that it spawned didn't exist before. If you mean exclusively print gaming journalism, then it's part of the greater death of print media. |
That's the thing though with video journalism - GameTrailers was proper gaming publication, just in video format. If you were really into it, you knew who are Justin Speer, Michael Damiani, Daniel Bloodworth and the rest of the crew (and of course Shane as editor in chief), but if you were just an average gamer looking for review, you would watch concise and to the point review written by some of them, always narrated by Brandon, that resembled something right out of printed publication (whether paper or electronic).
It's what came after that (and even GT succumbed to that to a degree in later years), cult of YT personalities, mostly wannabe reviewers who, for different reasons, found enough audience that major publications in never ending race for yet another click started publishing all sort of clickbait crap, while review quality has become worse.
