@algertman: @TeflonBilly: It may or may not be the case that kotaku has it's priorities ass-end-up (it is the case) but my point was more that Kuchera should be able to write an article about journalism and not talk about kotaku. The two of them are like a married couple, they keep fighting. Publicly and loudly and usually over something they should let go. That's my point. The article is good but Kuchera can't stop ruining his own good story for the sake of a dig at kotaku.
@algertman: Yes. I wasn't offering any specific commentary on PA about this. If I were to, I'd say it's shitty of Ben to call out Kotaku in the way he did. That doesn't make kotaku any better a site, but plenty of people haven't covered this story in depth. Plenty of people have. To use what is a great talking point about the dangers of libel accusation as an excuse to attack other journalism outlets is also stupid. That being said, this is more a journalism issue and not a 'games journalism' issue, which is my point (being that people should really take offense to what's gone on in this story).
To add on, Ben Kuchera has confirmed that Lauren indeed threatened to sue. Link. To me this is pretty important. And not in a 'games journalism' realm. A couple years ago an area reporter wrote a fairly negative piece about a local sport's team owner (again, link). Some of you will recognize this piece of humor as the ultimate list of all the things Dan Snyder has done to ruin the Redskins (I'm a Steelers fan, so it's all humor to me). Anyways, my point is libel accusations are no laughing matter. It seems like 95% of the time they are frivolous with the intent to shut up criticism. In both of these cases, this is what is going on. You can laugh about 'games journalism' or treat this as a silly spat, but this is pretty serious. Legal threats are no laughing matter and any person who considers themselves a journalist but resorts to the nuclear option is a dispicable human being who has no respect for their own career path. This shit disgusts me.
Ok rant over, and I didn't go create another thread about it :p
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