The 1UP Show @ E3: Sony, MS, Nintendo

[Bodhesatva]

twingo said:

Bodhesatva said:

twingo said:
People are people those are their opinions.

Stop.Right.There.

These aren't just people expressing their opinions, these are professional gaming journalists doing a professionally distributed taping. As I'm just a schmoe on an internet forum, in a totally unprofessional setting, I can express my opinions however I want. The PC platform is my personal favorite gaming platform. See? That's okay.

But the second I become a professional journalist in a professional setting, the rules change. I don't get to say that I don't care about a huge subsection of readers or their interests. That's certainly legal -- it's hard to be put in jail for any journalistic faux pas -- but it is hilariously inappropriate to make such statements.

For one "professional gaming journalists" means absolutly nothing, especially in out game world. All journalists suck unfortunetly for us our game journalists just happen to be at the botton of the dirt filled journalist barrel.

Thing is they have been making inappropriate statements about the PS3 for a year now, well it looks to be the wiis turn now.

Gaming journalists are hardcore gamers, so don't expect them to take casual stuff to well. They will not love joga wii.

 

Then I condemn the statements about the PS3, too! Those weren't posted in this thread. What was posted was written above.

Again, saying that other journalists are really bad and that the PS3 has recieved criticism too doesn't change the fact that this is also a case of poor journalism. As an extreme example, consider this: if I was caught stealing, could I point to another guy and say: "it's okay! These other guys were stealing too!" Obviously not: we're all culpable.

Similarly, the fact that other bad journalists exist doesn't change the fact that this guy made a hilarious journalistic faux pas. This one happened to be posted right here, in this very thread, so I happened to comment on this one. Heck, go to this link:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=4231&start=0#end

Here's another article, posted today. I made fun of that too! That's also silly journalism.

Again, I'm shocked that anyone is trying to defend this guy. Why does it bother you so much? He's clearly very biased, and bias is clearly bad for a professional journalist. Thus, it's funny. What's the big deal? Why did everyone think it was funny in the other thread I just linked to, but it's not funny here?