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Zomoniac
Oct 25, 2012, 9:45:11 AM10/25/12
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Rab Florence, of Consolevania, wrote his column on EG yesterday. It's
since been edited, but can be read in its original form on Stuart
Campbell's site:
http://wosland.podgamer.com/a-table-of-cowards/
In it, he took objection to journalists effectively advertising products
on a personal level on their Twitter feeds, a number having won PS3s as
part of a retweetathon thing. MCV journo Lauren Wainwright tweeted her
objection to the complaints, a tweet which Florence quoted in his
article, her words verbatim. She now appears to have had her legal
people contacting EG, who have removed a substantial chunk of the article.
The whole thing has now become very public and quite alarming. Do we now
have a situation where reviewers are accepting personal freebies from
companies and silencing anyone who objects to it?
John Walker has also followed up with an interesting piece:
http://botherer.org/2012/10/25/an-utter-disgrace/
--
Zo
since been edited, but can be read in its original form on Stuart
Campbell's site:
http://wosland.podgamer.com/a-table-of-cowards/
In it, he took objection to journalists effectively advertising products
on a personal level on their Twitter feeds, a number having won PS3s as
part of a retweetathon thing. MCV journo Lauren Wainwright tweeted her
objection to the complaints, a tweet which Florence quoted in his
article, her words verbatim. She now appears to have had her legal
people contacting EG, who have removed a substantial chunk of the article.
The whole thing has now become very public and quite alarming. Do we now
have a situation where reviewers are accepting personal freebies from
companies and silencing anyone who objects to it?
John Walker has also followed up with an interesting piece:
http://botherer.org/2012/10/25/an-utter-disgrace/
--
Zo
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
Oct 25, 2012, 10:05:06 AM10/25/12
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In article <aesu3l...@mid.individual.net>,
Journalists actually have quite a bit more influence than even they
realise, and many don't understand that it's ethically problematic for
them to be wined and dined and buttered up.
The independent game site I write for actually had quite an internal
blow-up about the subject. We debated for a week or two on whether or not
the requirement of full disclosure applies to where our review games come
from. The majority argued strongly that we had to indicate in our reviews
whether we bought our games or if they were provided by the developers,
and as it turns out US law requires that we do exactly that.
The counter-argument is mercenary and discouraging. In a time when all
individual writers are trying to establish their own nebulous "brand",
freebies and bribes are considered part of one's compensation and aren't
an ethical problem at all. The reasoning is, writers are paid so little
that they need to make up the shortfall any way they can. Now that large
media institutions are no longer authoritative or credible, there's very
little motivation for a journalist to consider their own ethics.
-KKC, who needs a burger and some onion rings.
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-- "Everybody secretly wants to be serenaded. |
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it's really annoying." - James May | io-nyc.com
Zomoniac <the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Rab Florence, of Consolevania, wrote his column on EG yesterday. It's
>since been edited, but can be read in its original form on Stuart
>Campbell's site:
>
>http://wosland.podgamer.com/a-table-of-cowards/
<snip>
>Rab Florence, of Consolevania, wrote his column on EG yesterday. It's
>since been edited, but can be read in its original form on Stuart
>Campbell's site:
>
>http://wosland.podgamer.com/a-table-of-cowards/
>
>The whole thing has now become very public and quite alarming. Do we now
>have a situation where reviewers are accepting personal freebies from
>companies and silencing anyone who objects to it?
This has been a problem in other review-oriented media for a while now.
>The whole thing has now become very public and quite alarming. Do we now
>have a situation where reviewers are accepting personal freebies from
>companies and silencing anyone who objects to it?
Journalists actually have quite a bit more influence than even they
realise, and many don't understand that it's ethically problematic for
them to be wined and dined and buttered up.
The independent game site I write for actually had quite an internal
blow-up about the subject. We debated for a week or two on whether or not
the requirement of full disclosure applies to where our review games come
from. The majority argued strongly that we had to indicate in our reviews
whether we bought our games or if they were provided by the developers,
and as it turns out US law requires that we do exactly that.
The counter-argument is mercenary and discouraging. In a time when all
individual writers are trying to establish their own nebulous "brand",
freebies and bribes are considered part of one's compensation and aren't
an ethical problem at all. The reasoning is, writers are paid so little
that they need to make up the shortfall any way they can. Now that large
media institutions are no longer authoritative or credible, there's very
little motivation for a journalist to consider their own ethics.
-KKC, who needs a burger and some onion rings.
--
-- "Everybody secretly wants to be serenaded. |
Unless it's in a Greek restaurant, then | kendrick @
it's really annoying." - James May | io-nyc.com
deKay
Oct 25, 2012, 10:41:51 AM10/25/12
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Zomoniac wrote:
> Rab Florence, of Consolevania, wrote his column on EG yesterday. It's since
> been edited, but can be read in its original form on Stuart Campbell's site:
>
> http://wosland.podgamer.com/a-table-of-cowards/
Or even better, here:
> Rab Florence, of Consolevania, wrote his column on EG yesterday. It's since
> been edited, but can be read in its original form on Stuart Campbell's site:
>
> http://wosland.podgamer.com/a-table-of-cowards/
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=43585928&postcount=48
So you don't have to give that shitcunt more clicks.
deKay
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