What a peculiar conundrum I find myself into, for today I am defending some journalists and denouncing others. Goes to show just how differently you can do this job.
The ones I’m defending are italian journalists who got accused by one of Italy’s governors of being mafiosi and a ‘factory of depression’. How dare they remind the people that this guy is under trial for corruption, among other things.
The ones I’m denouncing are the guys from Polygon who, in a not-signed article -gee, I wonder what they could be afraid of– are shilling a book from a fellow game journalist who, according to excerpts, hates his supposed target audience and abhors the thought of rewarding gameplay.
I wish I was exaggerating. In the same day I’m reading about people being called criminals for doing their jobs and about people who for the life of me I can’t understand how they still have a job at all.
Let’s start with the first part: they hate their audience. I mean, this was probably apparent to everyone who followed the last thirteen months. Remember? Gamers are Dead, Worse audience than weapon dealers, etc… But this latest installment has a particular frosting of arrogance and misguided self-importance.
I won’t link to the book, nor mention its author. Let content speak for itself. Courtesy of Adrian Chmielarz, who actually went and got the sodding thing, we find that the author is still bitter to this day for his firing from the GameFront website. Said firing happened because he -quote on quote- ‘had done exactly the thing he was afraid I would do: piss off the shitlord audience we were trying to cater to’.
Aaah, such insight into the recess of a human mind -which even the staff at Polygon refer to as ‘disrespected game journalist’-… This person wants people to agree with him that it was terribly unfair to have been fired from a job which consists writing for an audience of gamers for having purposely pissed off that very same audience. An audience which he held in contempt, considering the ‘shitlord’ appellative.
No, sir. It’s not unfair. You had been pushing for changing the editorial direction? Fine, but you failed -probably because his editor realized ‘Where the hell do I find another audience as big as gamers?!’ or maybe was one of those shitlords himself, who knows-. You could have left. You could have went with the flow. No, you threw a tantrum and forced them to fire you, and now expect people to sympathize?
I think ‘disrespected’ is the best adjective they could have ever used for this bag of sunshine.
Now, let’s get to the article itself, and its biased nihilist view against videogames -the medium these guys are supposed to write for-.
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