Is there any merit to it or is it just more gamer seething?
I don’t think bloggers who write about how much they like Dark Souls and NYT foreign affairs ghouls have much in common beyond sharing the title “journalist”
Sam Biddle used to be at Kotaku during G-gate and currently works for The Intercept. Some other guy I recognized from the G-gate ended up trying to do Russia stuff (I forget for whom) and got played into being photographed seated beside a Russian neo-Nazi, discrediting him over there.
Like someone else said, part of the problem is that “games journalism” is full of people who don’t care about the medium and want to drop the “gaming” part of their job title off asap.
In other words, to some extent, gaming journalism is like a farm league for more serious journalism. So, there is a common thread to be examined.
