KungKras said: Gameragate is a movement for "ethics" in games journalism in the misguided belief that games journalism isn't just an extended marketing arm of the game industry. Seriously, some people take video games way too seriously. If you live in the US, go after the real news journalism instead, they have real problems that are actually damaging to society. |
Not sure if you're from the US or not, but I'm going to go ahead and assume the latter. The problem with tackling news journalism, in the manner you speak is there's no real recourse but boycotting the publication, writing to advertisers etc... Or, on the very very extreme end, amending the US Constitution (1st Amendment), to ensure News Broadcasters/Corps are held to a higher standard than the rest of the populace. The reason is, due to Free Speech (which is generally a good thing), it's actually possible for News Orgs to publish/report on absolutely bogus horseshit, with zero rammifications. Boycotting/Advertiser campaigns however, won't be as effective due to the wide partisan divide in the US. News Orgs enjoy a pretty healthy viewership, and it's nearly impossible to get all of one side, or the other, or both to work together.
With gaming, on the other hand, it's much easier to force change(and make no mistake, it has been effective, and it has forced change. Most gaming sites have updated their ethics policies at this point). While there's a ton of infighting between gamer's regarding many different things, it's much easier to have these kinds of consumer revolts be effective. When Intel receives an onslaught of complaints from one of their core demo's, that someone they support through ad revenue is basically attacking that demo group, that makes Intel, or BMW, or Mercedes etc... pause. Additionally, the use of the archiving tool, completely destroys all ad revenue from any site at all, which is actually a pretty neat idea. Archive the link, share it on social media, and people can read the offending article, without contributing clicks to their ad-stream.
That same kind of strategy simply hasn't been achievable with mainstream journalism.