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Lately, we’ve been discussing a few issues in game journalism internally at Bitmob. IGN's Dead Space 2 review and a post submitted by a community member have sparked an intense back-and-forth in the staff mailboxes recently, and now we want to include you in the conversation.
First, IGN editor Greg Miller has been getting quite a bit of flack for his Dead Space 2 review. One reader even went as far as to post a red-penned version of his review on Reddit. (Full disclosure: These are not edits we condone in our internal style guide, so please don’t use them as a guide for writing!)
We’ve also been discussing another blogger internally: Jim Sterling of Destructoid. The Bitmob crew is split between Sterling fans and detractors. Some of us think he’s a brilliant humorist, while others think he’s an unprofessional, self-righteous grandstander (with plenty of opinion in between). Click here for one of his rants on video-game journalism.
As our slogan says, Bitmob is “where the community meets the press,” so we want to include you in the conversation:
- How should a journalist or reviewer react to such attacks?
- Are they even attacks at all?
- Should journalists and bloggers pass judgement on other journalists publicly?
- What risks do they incur when they do?
- Just who is or should be the watchdogs for game journalism? Is it the audience? A journalists' peers and superiors? Or is it some other organization like Ben Paddon's Game Journalists are Incompetent Fuckwits?
Post your opinion in the comments!
