I'm confused about Kotaku. (Gaming)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Wednesday, June 01, 2016, 19:48 (2946 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Kotaku, remarkably, does appear to do actual games journalism.

Writing about an entertainment industry is not journalism.

This rule confounds me.

So, is any business reporting journalism, or are you just disqualifying business reporting on sectors that are not entertainment? Because it concerns people being entertained? What is a disqualifying level of entertainment? People like cars. Is reporting on automotive industry journalism? Yes to peterbuilt, but no to Ferrari? Ford, but only the Vans? Much of the tech sector is strongly related to entertainment. Nvidia reporting is not journalism? Intel? Where is this line drawn, and why?

Or is it just reporting on things with some element of artistic purpose? I doubt we'll find a brighter line distinguishing art form not-artbut lets set that centuries old intractable discussion aside since the articles in question were not at all about the artistic elements of the design. It was a process piece, so I'm assuming that was not the warrant for your rule.

Confounded. So, what *is* journalism, then?

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I'm confused about Kotaku. - cheapLEY, 2016-06-01, 01:39
- I'm confused about Kotaku. - Speedracer513, 2016-06-01, 01:59
  - I'm confused about Kotaku. - Funkmon, 2016-06-01, 04:32
    - You know it's bad when this guy ^ gets offended - Robot Chickens, 2016-06-01, 05:24
      - They treat people like they're dumb sometimes. :( - Funkmon, 2016-06-01, 08:33
    - I'm confused about Kotaku. - Cody Miller, 2016-06-01, 05:32
      - I'm confused about Kotaku. - Kahzgul, 2016-06-01, 14:45
        
        I'm confused about Kotaku. - Cody Miller, 2016-06-01, 15:20
        
        I'm confused by Codytaku - someotherguy, 2016-06-01, 15:31
        
        I'm confused by Codytaku - SonofMacPhisto, 2016-06-02, 00:56
        
        TIL . . . - cheapLEY, 2016-06-02, 01:09
        
        Using dictionaries doesn't help in cases like these. - Funkmon, 2016-06-02, 08:39
        
        Possibly my favourite sentence ever. - someotherguy, 2016-06-02, 11:43
        
        Using dictionaries doesn't help in cases like these. - cheapLEY, 2016-06-02, 17:16
        
        Using dictionaries doesn't help in cases like these. - CruelLEGACEY, 2016-06-02, 17:25
        
        Using dictionaries doesn't help in cases like these. - Funkmon, 2016-06-02, 17:55
        
        We still exist. - Vortech, 2016-06-02, 19:26
        
        That's simply not possible to do with dictionaries. - Funkmon, 2016-06-03, 00:10
        
        TIL. - cheapLEY, 2016-06-03, 01:06
        
        +1 - ZackDark, 2016-06-03, 01:15
        
        Images and video (!) of commentary from the OED. - Funkmon, 2016-06-03, 03:53
        
        You and I have very different definitions of "manageable" - ZackDark, 2016-06-03, 03:54
        
        At minimum size, the entry is still too large to capture. - Funkmon, 2016-06-03, 04:03
        
        At minimum size, the entry is still too large to capture. - Vortech, 2016-06-03, 16:21
        
        No. The entry is 211k characters. ~70 pages long. - Funkmon, 2016-06-03, 18:43
        
        Well, for a first read, yeah - ZackDark, 2016-06-03, 19:55
        
        Tl:dr? - ProbablyLast, 2016-06-03, 02:12
        
        Tl:dr: it hasn't for 250 years. - Funkmon, 2016-06-03, 04:19
        
        Sort of random tangent . . . - cheapLEY, 2016-06-03, 02:47
        
        Sort of random tangent . . . - ZackDark, 2016-06-03, 02:55
        
        When it's used as its own word often it gets an entry *IMG*. - Funkmon, 2016-06-03, 03:25
        
        Lord - ZackDark, 2016-06-03, 03:53
        
        Lord - Funkmon, 2016-06-03, 04:11
        
        That's simply not possible to do with dictionaries. - Vortech, 2016-06-03, 16:27
        
        That's simply not possible to do with dictionaries. - Robot Chickens, 2016-06-03, 16:57
        
        +1 for the Funkmon continuum - ZackDark, 2016-06-03, 18:26
        
        You probably made his week. - ProbablyLast, 2016-06-03, 17:54
        
        I didn't spend much time on it. - Funkmon, 2016-06-03, 18:55
        
        TIL . . . - SonofMacPhisto, 2016-06-03, 14:40
        
        Journalism doesn't have to be "good" to be journalism. - CruelLEGACEY, 2016-06-01, 15:39
        
        I'm confused about Kotaku. - cheapLEY, 2016-06-02, 14:41
      - I'm confused about Kotaku. - Vortech, 2016-06-01, 19:48
        
        I'd read a magazine only about vans. - Funkmon, 2016-06-01, 20:54
        
        Dunno - ZackDark, 2016-06-01, 22:31
        
        White, windowless, and unmarked, I assume? - Vortech, 2016-06-01, 22:40
        
        I'd read a magazine only about vans. - cheapLEY, 2016-06-01, 23:09
        
        I'm confused about Kotaku. - Cody Miller, 2016-06-02, 16:40
        
        Thank you for this. - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 16:44
        
        Thank you for this. - Cody Miller, 2016-06-02, 16:50
        
        Thank you for this. - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 18:12
        
        And thank YOU for that... - CruelLEGACEY, 2016-06-02, 20:20
        
        And thank YOU for that... - Cody Miller, 2016-06-02, 20:21
        
        And thank YOU for that... - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 20:31
        
        And thank YOU for that... - Cody Miller, 2016-06-02, 20:41
        
        And thank YOU for that... - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 21:13
        
        And thank YOU for that... - CruelLEGACEY, 2016-06-02, 21:19
        
        lol - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 21:24
        
        Thank you for this. - Cody Miller, 2016-06-02, 20:43
        
        Thank you for this. - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 21:16
        
        Just in case... - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 21:19
        
        Just in case... - CyberKN, 2016-06-02, 21:21
        
        +1. For the laugh. - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 21:25
        
        Just in case... - Vortech, 2016-06-02, 21:34
        
        Just in case... - Claude Errera, 2016-06-02, 22:07
        
        I'm confused about Kotaku. - Vortech, 2016-06-02, 19:34
      - I'm confused about Kotaku. - narcogen, 2016-06-01, 23:16
      - The words I'm searching for I can't say because... - Ragashingo, 2016-06-02, 15:03
    - What Funk and Speed said - CruelLEGACEY, 2016-06-01, 11:34
    - I'm confused about Kotaku. - narcogen, 2016-06-01, 23:15
      - I didn't say it was thorough investigative reporting. - Funkmon, 2016-06-02, 08:52
      - Y'all have some unexpected definitions of journalism. - Vortech, 2016-06-02, 19:19
        
        So does wikipedia, apparently, as well as my J-school profs. - narcogen, 2016-06-03, 03:17
- Here, let me help: - CyberKN, 2016-06-01, 02:44
  - Here, let me help: - Kahzgul, 2016-06-01, 14:47
  - That signal to noise ratio... - someotherguy, 2016-06-01, 15:05
- It is still terrible. - ProbablyLast, 2016-06-01, 02:47
- Kotaku (and Io9, and everything else Gawker Media) - Durandal, 2016-06-01, 11:02
  - Kotaku (and Io9, and everything else Gawker Media) - Quirel, 2016-06-02, 02:56
    - Kotaku (and Io9, and everything else Gawker Media) - Durandal, 2016-06-02, 15:15
- Kotaku are confusing - someotherguy, 2016-06-01, 12:47
  - Kotaku are confusing - Xenos, 2016-06-01, 15:45
    - "Journalistic Crusade! But also look at dis dog LOLOL" - someotherguy, 2016-06-01, 15:47
      - Also, more amusing than anything... - Xenos, 2016-06-01, 15:49
        
        Also, more amusing than anything... - cheapLEY, 2016-06-01, 16:39
- I'm confused about Kotaku. - Fire Opal, 2016-06-02, 12:58

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