But yeah, investigative journalism is dead. A press release is a valid source but it is the journalists duty to sift through the BS and corpospeak and convey what it actually means.
There’s too many sites that just paste a press release on a blog page and call it an article, but let me stop there before I digress even more!
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My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
This is games journalism, so expect the “sources” to be EA press releases and a conference call with Marketing.
As an ex-journo, ouch.
But yeah, investigative journalism is dead. A press release is a valid source but it is the journalists duty to sift through the BS and corpospeak and convey what it actually means.
There’s too many sites that just paste a press release on a blog page and call it an article, but let me stop there before I digress even more!