10 Things You Need To Know About The #GamerGate Scandal
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. Its 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 journalists/bloggers words are not law, and that it is wrong to let them paint the gaming community as this hateful, male-dominated, cesspool.
