Gawker gamergate series#
Read’s post follows a humiliating climbdown and series of apologies from Read himself, and another Gawker writer, Valleywag editor Sam Biddle, for tweets they published apparently condoning bullying of “nerds” and gamers. Read yesterday repeated a number of disobliging characterisations of gamers, inaccurate claims about GamerGate and even insulted Intel, an advertiser that withdrew from games site Gamasutra for similar reasons, writing: “ Intel is run by craven idiots. Max Read’s incendiary response to the situation will have done nothing to allay these advertisers’ fears. If you keep watching and reading reviewers and journalists who allow themselves to be intellectually compromised then you're passively saying that kind of thing is okay.Rather than apologising for the tone of its coverage and the language of its writers, Gawker branded the video games community, which is incensed by Gawker’s biased coverage of the GamerGate controversy, “dishonest fascists.”Įarnest, polite letters to advertisers and sponsors by GamerGate supporters, which have been flowing freely since Gawker threw its hat in the ring with hateful games journalists intent on wrongly portraying GamerGate as a misogynistic campaign operating under the cover of a press ethics mission, are working.ĭozens of advertisers have reconsidered their sponsorship of sites such as Gawker, viewing the contempt with which they hold their own readers as toxic. I want publishers who have enough faith in their products that they don't feel the need to use review contracts, bribery, and hell what I would consider blackmail by denying a reviewer early access to review a product unless they review it as per section II article 5 of the review contract. I want reviews done by people who aren't locked into contracts with publishers. That is what should be focused on not "oh gamersgate are misogynists/anti-gamersgate are SJWs".
And that's what a lot of people lose sight of, the actual video game industry (Big name publishers and the like) influencing reviews done by names you trust a la Shadow of Mordor and youtubers. What about voicing our ethical concerns with reviewers including journalism sites, youtubers, and anyone giving us an opinion on the video games were trying to purchase? Well hell yeah. Does it matter if we shut down gawker or kotaku etc? Not in the long run. Yes and the focus should not be that they are part of "game journo illuminati conspiracy", the issue is in the video game reviews as a whole.
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