Gaming - Does this mean that everyone who's good at gaming has a skill fetish

Ok, this is something that's been bothering me ever since the Gamergate fiasco. Why are game journalists so antagonistic towards gamers? These are the people who are the most likely to view your work; why alienate them like this? And from what I've seen, this has been happening even before the whole gamergate thing. I've seen journalists slamming gamers since at least the release of Mass Effect 3 and its infamous ending, so where's this all coming from?