Cossposted from half-KIA over on Reddit. From Scrivonaut's OP over there:
The last “respectable” video game journalist, Jason Schreier, admitted he knew about the sexual misconduct occurring at Blizzard years before it came to light. He claims he wanted to corroborate the allegations before reporting him, but that caution never stopped him from signal-boosting the paper-thin allegations against developer Chris Avellone. We discuss Schreier’s hypocrisy and agenda-based reporting along with the latest in the Blizzard controversy, Ash Parrish leaving Kotaku, Destructoid saying a lot of nothing about gender in games, Mary Sue bullying a Twitter nobody over his benign opinions, and Susan Arendt buying a game based on nothing but its protagonist’s appearance.
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DISCLAIMER: I'm not Scrivonaut, nor am I affiliated with him, I just dig him and his wife's podcast and feel it deserves a signal boost.
Scrivonaut is on record in prior podcasts as stating he saw Schreier as having put in the work on stories in the past, but in this episode he takes him to task over the whole "I've been working on this story for years" excuse, noting that either Schreier was protecting people over at Bliz by camping the story, or he was basically incompetent on this one because in the past he had published stories in a faster turnaround with less corroborating evidence. I think at this point we're all pretty much in agreement that Schreier's rep is shot to shit.