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I think after the latest article on Alison Rapp something has to be said. Now, let me start by saying I certainly agree there is an issue with gender in video games, and that video games could certainly benefit from being more inclusive. However the way the gaming media has gone about covering this issue has gone too far. We now have websites that were once very respectable like EG basically publishing propaganda in the guise of news, and even worse in the guise of the truth. These same sites then censor and ban any dissenting opinions and, even worse, any dissenting facts. The Alison Rapp story - this was a woman who had very controversial opinions on rape culture, sex working and child pornography and aired them on her official Nintendo twitter account. A woman who also posted pictures of herself in lingerie with Nintendo products. And who, seemingly, moonlighted anonymously at a job she refuses to define and one that Nintendo did not approve of (so it probably isn't family friendly). Rightfully so Nintendo decided to let her go as a public representative of the company, based on those FACTS outlined above this shouldn't be a story at all. But those facts weren't what was reported, quite the opposite. The story was reported in a way to hide any possible wrongdoing or mismanagement by Rapp, and the mods even went so far as to censor any mention of these facts. Instead the story was published presenting an unfounded, and completely speculative, conspiracy theory as fact - that for some reason or somehow GG was responsible for her firing. How? Well they don't really know. But GG bad, women good right? So that's all the evidence you need to know that Alison did nothing wrong, after all she is a woman, and that the great GG bogeyman was responsible for her losing her job. The above is very sad, but this is essentially the logic the EG "journalists" are using to publish their story and censor debate on the subject. Alison got fired for being very questionable at her job, being a PR nightmare for the family friendly Nintendo, and for breaking company policy with her moonlighting job. Hiding being "victim blaming" is so utterly pathetic an excuse to ignore all those things, not report them and censor them out of discussion in favour of pushing your political agenda is frankly journalist misconduct. I'm sorry guys, but if you're in the right side of things you don't have to censor dissenting opinions, you don't have to censor facts that disagree with you and you certainly don't have to publish propaganda rather than fairly cover topics. EG I'm sorry but... Get. Your. Shit. Together. You're supposed to be professional journalists - start acting like it. Stop posting propaganda as fact (as in this Alison Rapp article), stop censoring your critics (clearly you realise they have a point, hence the censorship), stop misrepresenting and downright hiding facts on stories because it doesn't fit with your agenda (which is ABSOLUTELY what happened here). |
#11374216, By manic_mouse The sorry state of video game journalism
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