A modern version of the Frank Zappa quote:
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
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It wasn't always like this.
One of the earliest pulitzer prizes was given to the lefty goon that simped for stalin and helped to cover up the Holodomor - Walter Duranty of the New York Times. The spanish american war was instigated by the newspapers with false and sensationalized headlines, which worked to force the US from an isolationist nation to a colonial power with all of the expansion of federal power and meaningless sacrifices of american lives that entailed.
Relevance to Gaming Journalism>?
Once journalists infiltrated gaming publications and drove out the enthusiasts, we ended up with the same situation. They just lie and lie and lie.
The only difference is that lies of gaming journalists are less destructive than the lies of the New York Times.
You've both gone off on a tangent. Go and find some Gaming Mags from the 80's and 90's - you won't find a woke comment - it was all about the games. Hence - "It wasn't always like this". I think Infocom Adventures have a better parse function than you 2