10 Things You Need To Know About The #GamerGate Scandal

By Jordan Ephraim /

5. It's About Separating The Journalist From The Blogger

Gamers everywhere are beginning to question the journalistic integrity of major gaming news outlets such as Kotaku, Polygon and IGN. It€™s become obvious that the interests of the average gamer and the gaming journalist have drifted apart. The logic behind the journalist/blogger idea is that someone who writes incompetently, or is not objective in their reporting, they are not a journalist; but a blogger. This is because at that point the article is mostly opinion and conjecture, not based on facts or evidence. One of the main aims of #GamerGate is to remind and inform the general gaming public that these journalist€™s/blogger€™s words are not law, and that it is wrong to let them paint the gaming community as this hateful, male-dominated, cesspool.