Destructoid EIC quits over disagreement with management

Ditto to Morville's comment

Truly unbiased media is not something easy to find in any age, given human interest in pushing agendas.

This is why the internet is such a breakthrough from traditional media because of the ability to add comment sections, where people can expose other sides of issues. Censoring users on comment sections is the worst thing a media site can do right now, it's a step backwards to a time where only a few in power had a voice.

This comment is a little off track, but I felt the need to say it.

Frankly, Morville, I didn't want to give that person the satisfaction of even doing the search.

Morville, check out the Reddit pastebin. Should be available through the KiA link. ;)

@Christopher Bowen Have you read your house rules yet? Here is the link. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-10-20-our-house-rules Your comments so far in this thread "Oooooh! I can't wait to see the 15 minute InfoWars-style videos made by "DeathToDestructoid52176" that you GG people love making! Let me guess: Ashly Burch slept with Dale to get better placement for HAWP?" and " Frankly, Morville, I didn't want to give that person the satisfaction of even doing the search." Break rule #1, RESPECT. You can disagree with someone, but show respect.

Also just to point out that your Rule #2 is sexist by not including misandry in it as well. There are all kinds of comments floating around the internet right now blaming GG on angry white men, which is sexist, racist and misandry all in one. Lets not let that attitude spread here too please.

We may disagree on GG, but we should all be civil with each other. As an EiC you should be held more accountable because your opinions get passed through the entire site. So lets allow fairness and not personal opinion to fog what is going on. Personally I think both sides have things to talk about, but while the gaming press is only talking to and listening to one side this will not end and will just keep slogging on. This is not good for anyone in the industry.

@Andrew Ihegbu has a good point as well.

@Brad
You... do realise that Christopher is EiC of Gaming Bus, not GamesIndustry.biz? Right?

@Jessica

No I didn't, but the majority of my point stands, if then taken in a general term. But thank you for the correction.

That just reads as eDrama. Every work place at times has very controversial decisions made that not every one will agree with. I can't think of a job i have had in any sector that isn't rife with controversy and gossip. Nor have I worked at a place where employees haven't been controversially fired, this happens everywhere and in most sensible nations worker rights laws protect there citizens. Under a microscope all businesses will not be squeaky clean. This is not a games industry centric issue at all, and the call to arms for all games journalist to join the Society of Professional Journalist (SPJ) will *not* change this. Try again.

Every point raised about games journalism applies to all specialist press. All literature critics are working on there own novel, most music critics are in a band and/or work in the music industry in other capacities. The games industry isn't even a particularly bad example, inspect the tech writing sector or automotive writers sector, many whom are members of the SPJ with rafts of standards to follow and the conflicts of interest are worse. None of this is a games industry centric issue. Nobody ever knew who paid for Roger Ebert's taxi, dinner and film nor are we warned by any film critic. Nor does the GamerGate crowd seem to care.

It's hard to take any of this movement seriously when there is such wilful ignorance that this isn't a games journalist centric debate. Many things can be said about the specialist press but suggesting that emergency level drastic reform must happen immediately shows a real lack of objectiveness.

This just highlights all the more this has never been about journalistic ethics.

People come and people go.

The problem is not the fact that journalists have "other" interests but rather the problem with games journalism is it appears to be a closed shop where everyone supports each other.

Ironically, in the end, all that GG is going to have done is push alternative (mostly freelance) writers out of the medium, and ensure that any fresh-blood carefully rethinks whether they really want to write about games. Regardless of gender, who started it, and what exactly started it, readers of quality writing have been harmed by all this.

This is true, but websites/magazines are only as good as the staff/freelancers they can employ. :/ Perhaps I'm being too cynical though. :)

you would know, your old outfit employs one of the biggest mouthpieces involved in it

whoops, have I said too much?