[Levitz]

> All the coverage about crunch, for instance, or sexual harassment scandals at big companies—-these are topics broken by games journos.

Sorry to be blunt but, that's not games. That's games journalists who want to be activists in their own fields. That, just as the gorillionth take on how this or that is problematic, is just people wanting to inject their politics into a hobby and it can't disappear soon enough.

I don't see that as an advantage of journalism. I see that as an evil to endure for a good that isn't there.

[edavison1]

How is exposing malfeasance and illegal corporate activity activism?

I hate to retreat into platitudes here but good journalism shines a light in the dark, it comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable, that’s kind of the name of the game.

If you’d prefer these topics go unaddressed and companies continue to take advantage of their workers or whatever, not sure we have enough in common to have real discourse on the subject. Sorry to be blunt lol.

[Cheezewheel]

>All Game Journalists do is act as little more than spokespeople for corporations

>>Actually here Game Journalists also report on X, Y and Z

>Nah that is just people injecting politics and being activists

This is a pretty dumb "No true Scotsman" argument you are smuggling into the conversation here.