Posted on 09/22/2014 6:10:12 AM PDT by servo1969
Last week, Breitbart News revealed a secret video game journalist mailing list used by a clique of influential writers, editors, and bloggers, some of whom attempted to bully their colleagues with it in an attempt to shape the news agenda for political purposes.
We can today reveal the complete list of journalists, some 150 key industry figures, on the list. Outlets with representation span the entire video games journalism universe and include Polygon, Ars Technica, Wired, Eurogamer, Destructoid, Kotaku, Joystiq, TechRadar, and many other well-known brands in games publishing.
But they also include freelancers and staffers for publications as solidly mainstream as the Associated Press, CNBC, and USA Today, together with technology industry stalwarts such as Motherboard, owned by VICE, VentureBeat, and CNet.
Even more disturbingly, Tom Curtis, a marketing executive from game publisher Ubisoft, and Billy Shibley, a community manager for Destiny from Activision, are also present on the list, which begs the question why marketing managers are included on a mailing list for the journalists who are supposed to be writing about their employers.
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Having worked in the media for over a decade, I assure you that credibility, honesty and the original mission left the building quite some time ago. I don’t care if it is gaming media, the MSM or your hometown paper (ESPECIALLY the hometown paper). If you take what is written at face value, you’d have to be crazy.
The number of honest reporters is miniscule and their stories are either heavily edited or tanked altogether to comply with whatever agenda the Publisher/Editor is pushing. I don’t care if it is Iraq or the local high school board meeting.
Buying and consuming modern media basically does nothing but fund and empower more of that agenda. To the folks that are struggling with what relevance and how important this story really is in the big scheme of things, you have to understand that many of the names involved are not MSM level. They are low end blogger types that get paid little to nothing. Their entire ‘thing’ is wannabee crusading reporter with a head full of social justice.
Games are the last bastion of freedom for many younger people and even a few of us older ones. Until recently they were safe. Now, as the ‘media’ of the future, leftists have glommed onto them to spread the social justice crap and propagandize. These Journ O lists are pure Soviet central planning. And since it is the unpaid ‘crusader’ types that make up the majority of the propagandists, you are seeing fanaticism for leftist caused building.
And that is the great danger here. People are becoming normalized to it all. In the MSM, On ESPN and now in gaming.
There is no where left. FR does not ‘do’ news in and of itself. It relies on outside reportage and we discuss it. So ‘we’ don’t count.
Ever notice how much Mr. Enclave resembles Mitt Romney? Coincidence? I THINK NOT! ;)
If they are colluding to blacklist/target certain manufacturers and deny them access to the marketplace, at what point does this influence (peddling?) cross over into interstate racketeering? It’s like book seller lists (and record charts lists) omitting bestsellers from the ranks because of “politics” (office or government). There are plenty of cases of “pay for play” payola (buy an ad and get in the charts even with no record pressed and no airplay). I’m not up to date on this scandal, but colluding to defraud such listings and reviews sounds like it could be criminal conspiracy.
Summary: boyfriend accuses Zoe of trading sex for favorable reviews. Things unravel, and the whole sorry mess of "journalism" as it involves gamers became revealed.
Good article on the whole thing
And, no, just because an accusation is disputed does not make it "shown to be false".
Based on who/what is the question.
Why is this worth knowing?
Then we can expect Holder to be on it like a rooster on a Junebug. Or not! These are ‘rat scum we’re talking about!
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