I've loved SB's work for some time, and this video is exactly what I had been hoping he'd tackle. Both because I feel like his reporting is qualitative and even-handed but also because he has...
I've loved SB's work for some time, and this video is exactly what I had been hoping he'd tackle. Both because I feel like his reporting is qualitative and even-handed but also because he has on-the-ground experience and a degree in Journalism.
He (understandably) tapdances around it but I do feel like this video is in part a belated response to Gamergate, and specifically to the actual discussions on the notions of journalistic ethics in reporting on video games and the standards we can and should hold people to in their respective mediums.
I've never held game sites like Kotaku or EGM in very high esteem. Outside of the few good pieces they'd sometimes publish it was mostly guff, and that's unfortunately just the reality of the industry. But it really surprises me to have seen so many people not only designate these people as somehow the lower version of reporting but to also claim that YouTube somehow contained the more above-board reporting? Even though all of the systems and incentives that would create corruption in blogging are completely present and sometimes even less discouraged in the one-man-show world of YouTube.
I've loved SB's work for some time, and this video is exactly what I had been hoping he'd tackle. Both because I feel like his reporting is qualitative and even-handed but also because he has on-the-ground experience and a degree in Journalism.
He (understandably) tapdances around it but I do feel like this video is in part a belated response to Gamergate, and specifically to the actual discussions on the notions of journalistic ethics in reporting on video games and the standards we can and should hold people to in their respective mediums.
I've never held game sites like Kotaku or EGM in very high esteem. Outside of the few good pieces they'd sometimes publish it was mostly guff, and that's unfortunately just the reality of the industry. But it really surprises me to have seen so many people not only designate these people as somehow the lower version of reporting but to also claim that YouTube somehow contained the more above-board reporting? Even though all of the systems and incentives that would create corruption in blogging are completely present and sometimes even less discouraged in the one-man-show world of YouTube.
An in-depth look into video game journalism and it's relationship with entertainment pieces, how to discern the difference, among other things.