Yeah, this is very accurate. Which in turn is why games journalism is such a broken industry in of itself, because it mixes all the problems of the games indust

Yeah, this is very accurate. Which in turn is why games journalism is such a broken industry in of itself, because it mixes all the problems of the games industry as a whole (people accepting miserable wages for a 'dream job', fairly low barrier to entry, toxic conditions) with those of the media industry (people accepting low/miserable wages, low barrier to entry, toxic conditions and almost no way to make a decent amount of revenue). Hence you get situations like the focus of this discussion; the people who actually do the work and draw in the visitors getting treated terribly by out of touch execs, and many sites cratering as a result of similar poor decision making.