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Zoë Quinn - Games Journalistic Integrity? What is that?

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□ Anonymous 02/06/13 ved 12:40 No. 175039486 Replies >>175040002 22175040239 22175042790 >>175047 I work for Reuters. I'm a journalist in the media business. Back in 2008, I sat in a conference and reviewed some proposals to integrate news sources focused on electronic gaming into our RSS service as niche content providers. We considered IGN, Gamespot, and a few other syndicated online info feeds Now, in order to white label a source as affiliated with Reuters, you need to run through a checklist of about -100 or so items that are necessary for journalistic integrity. The source and its organization has to score at least 60 out of 100 for it to be considered fair and unbiased These tests are carried out by senior journalists, editors, and investigators. NONE of gaming publications scored higher than a 15. For reference, the National Enquirer scored a 38 and the MSNBC blogsphere scored 44. Some failures include: Economic ties with publishers Acceptance of favours 0% of staff held journalism degrees Very small percentage worked in other major publications No editing process No accountability

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Grandpa Ironside

Aug 26, 2014 at 12:48AM EDT

Worse than the Enquirer?

That's hilarious

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On the flipside, Cracked, a comedy-oriented website, produces better news than the more-popular media programs. I don’t know how they would handle gaming, because it’s mostly one individual blogger per article shouting “this game is freaking sweet and it contains exactly three dongs”, but hey, at least they weren’t paid by the developer to say that.

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