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Really? I'm no expert on this, but it seems like the Guardian game journalists have been pretty transparent they don't like the GamerGate movement.
by room271 12y ago
Really? I'm no expert on this, but it seems like the Guardian game journalists have been pretty transparent they don't like the GamerGate movement.
- exstudent2 12y agoIndeed, they have. That's part of the problem I think. Even if a journalist was reporting on a truly heinous group, like say the KKK, I would expect some objectivity. The Guardian has been very aggressive about their stance against GamerGate, often not labeling their articles as op-eds. For example, there are leaked emails from The Guardian with the subject Killallmen about how to handle GamerGate reporting: http://theralphretort.com/internal-email-shows-guardian-mind-made-gamergate/ http://theralphretort.com/internal-email-shows-guardian-mind... For those who don't know, Leigh Alexander was one of the journalists who wrote the most aggressive of the gamers are dead articles where she calls traditional gamers "obtuse shitslingers, these wailing hyper-consumers, these childish internet-arguers" among other things. http://archive.today/l1kTW http://archive.today/l1kTW To say she poured gasoline on the GamerGate fire is an understatement. The irony here is that The Ralph Retort is ALSO very unethical. Ralph isn't liked by many GamerGaters but in this case he did break this story and there was no other reporting on it. His outlet exists because mainstream media has created a vacuum by only reporting one side of the GamerGate story. He's an amateur and most definitely biased, but I'd expect more from the Guardian and if they were more objective, there wouldn't be as much a need for untrained reporting.