Yesterday when there was an article doing the rounds on Angry Gamer's top 10 controversies, I noticed there was someone mentioning his 2010 VGA interview with geoff keighly. I watched the video, and AG asked keighly at a press conference with other journalists why there weren't more PC categories, like a mmo category. A fair question.
Keighly was rude, dismissive, finished with a smug 'thanks for playing' comment and was cheered on by whoops and hollers from other 'journalists' that you used to hear when at e3 someone like microsoft gives out free 360s, or kratos dismembers an elephant man's brain in seventeen graphic chunks.
It's that kind of smug, arrogant, abrasive and downright rude attitude from the (mostly american) games journalist cabal who love to assert their cultural superiority and write ad infinitum about the downfall of japanese games. They are creating their own narrative, making themselves out to be insiders and part of the news (a classic rule that should never be broken in real journalism) and it smacks of nothing but corruption, nepotism and fraud.
I can't wait til the next Wainwright-scale controversy. There needs to be a bigger target than just one person though. I don't think she is the problem, probably just one person out of hundreds who have never questioned the perception of how they operate. No, I want to see a big fish like Totilo or Keighly exposed for the kinds of disservice they are doing to gaming journalism. They are about as diametrically opposed from real gaming journalism (see Retro Gamer, Edge) as one could possibly be. Even Fox News would be embarrassed by their conduct and standards.
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