Journalism has been dead a long time (Destiny)

by Speedracer513 , Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, November 04, 2015, 14:15 (3546 days ago) @ Kermit

Kotaku has two of the only actual journalists in the "video game news" industry - Patrick Klepek and Jason Schreier. Those two guys are highly respected and write actually journalistic pieces on a regular basis. Unfortunately, they are far outnumbered by a bunch of fluff pieces. If you pay attention to who actually wrote any particular piece posted on any given video game news site, it becomes a lot easier to distinguish between the good apples and the rest of the bunch.

Don't know who to blame, really. Those fluff pieces bring in needed ad revenue. Who expects to pay for access to content these days? You might call those fluff pieces journalism's equivalent of Destiny's Eververse offerings.

Yup! Those fluff pieces serve a purpose, and I won't even say that they need to go. Heck, they can even be fun and entertaining. The point is, just because a large portion of what is posted on Kotaku is fluff and click-bait, doesn't mean we need to completely dismiss everything posted there.

A tiny bit of effort on our part to exercise some discernment goes a long way in maintaining a reasonable discourse about what has journalistic merit and what isn't even intended for that purpose.