In general, anything attention seeking skews left (media, celebs, athletes, companies promoting for PR pts etc...). They do it due to the nature of the people working there (attention whoring liberals to begin with) and it combines with aiming for an image of being giving and caring. So on paper, it sounds like a match made in heaven for success.
Problem is a lot of the people and companies doing this are morons and people figured out their agenda. So users move on to more genuine people or companies with no political slant.
It's also problematic for media people because their existence mostly comes from being egotistical and attention seeking or doing such great content people seek them out. Most of their content is juvenile junk, so that leaves being loud or controversial hoping to be noticed to score a job. Its a short term fix because it might work at the beginning, but then it fizzles out.
To give people an example of media that is successful on content alone without loud annoying political people is National Geographic. Their mag and videos are literally nature shots spun into a story. But it's not loud, pronoun based or any other childish antics for views. As crazy as it sounds, just have good content showing insects, frogs or lions and hyenas fighting and that good enough to entertain without the attitude.
Very true. The internet really amped up the drama coming from media sites. And they got to do this because all the joe nobodys and their YT channels and Twitch feeds are beating game sites run under corporate umbrellas. So to get those clicks, they need to be crazier and crazier.It wasn't always the case, back in the 90's and early 00's magazines wouldn't talk about politics at all . Yes there were plenty that were barely disguised adverts where they played it for 10 minutes and gave it 80%, but the good ones were really good.
It was a different world (of course) and the relics of that era are completely indistinguishable from what gaming media turned into, but honestly being into games media was as exciting (if not more so) than playing the actual games. It was a whole new world slowly developing, and a very enthusiastic one at that - reporting felt juvenile, but it didn't matter because it was really exciting. Remember, there was no WWW back in those early days, you had hobbyist discussion on places like the usenet (which I am certain most folks had limited or zero access to) but there weren't really places to discuss games/look at media in realtime unless you actually bought or rented a game (or went to your friends house, or an arcade, et cetera).It wasn't always the case, back in the 90's and early 00's magazines wouldn't talk about politics at all . Yes there were plenty that were barely disguised adverts where they played it for 10 minutes and gave it 80%, but the good ones were really good.
So only IGN and Gamespot will remeain in the end.
Lot of good that union did them:
It's almost as if they don't know how the real world actually works and they're sold a bunch of socialist/commie bullshit at the Uni's. Almost.Hmmm, its almost as if in some positions unionization doesn't mean shit.
It's almost as if they don't know how the real world actually works and they're sold a bunch of socialist/commie bullshit at the Uni's. Almost.
These 2 are the reason I stopped going to Polygon back in the day.I never liked this site from day 1. Psycho Ben Kuchera, sanctimonious Arthur Gies and Chris Plante, and a whole bunch of purple hairs. No idea if any of them are still there or not. Well I guess not after today.
When clickbait no longer drives revenue and you have no actual audience...Weird. I thought they'd actually be swimming in cash by attacking the core demo of the industry the "report" on.
"talented"![]()
The a-hole shaming the tshirt from the guy who landed a probe into an asteroid.
I'm glad karma caught up with him. Maybe Plante should learn to code.![]()
The a-hole shaming the tshirt from the guy who landed a probe into an asteroid.
Game journo biz is dying before our eyes.
Is this fcking serious ?
Yes, they really published a major feature on the author completely misunderstanding the point of everything in Attack on Titan and calling it fascistic and antisemitic.Is this fcking serious ?
Someone needing the office space ?Who the F@#$% would buy that place?![]()
Game journo biz is dying before our eyes.
Every time I think this lunatics cant surprise me anymore some crazy shit proves me wrong.... Damn.Yes, they really published a major feature on the author completely misunderstanding the point of everything in Attack on Titan and calling it fascistic and antisemitic.
It was a different world (of course) and the relics of that era are completely indistinguishable from what gaming media turned into, but honestly being into games media was as exciting (if not more so) than playing the actual games. It was a whole new world slowly developing, and a very enthusiastic one at that - reporting felt juvenile, but it didn't matter because it was really exciting. Remember, there was no WWW back in those early days, you had hobbyist discussion on places like the usenet (which I am certain most folks had limited or zero access to) but there weren't really places to discuss games/look at media in realtime unless you actually bought or rented a game (or went to your friends house, or an arcade, et cetera).
Gaming journalism - along with all journalism, and other forms of communication - changed with the advent and growth of social media. We will continue to see this evolution, one way or the other.
Damn it, I was just about to post this