Welcome to the ridiculous number of new visitors coming our way courtesy of a link on Slashdot Games. Hopefully some of you (especially those in the VG journalism biz) will look through the site, like what you see and become regular visitors and contributors.
A small clarification: While I do think that the NY Post column was "obviously false and irresponsible" that wasn't really the point of my post. As I said earlier, "it's not really my place on this blog to argue with opinions; it's an editorial, and the author is entitled to make whatever arguments he wants." The comparison to the Enquirer was only to show how little respect the Post gets in the mainstream journalism world. I'm flattered to be the rallying point for the pro-video-game side on this one, but in general I'm here not to give my opinions on the issues, but on the coverage of those issues.
Update: 10:26 am I found a post on the Slashdot thread that makes my point beautifully:
I live in NY - work in NYC every day. The NY Post is known as the "rag" newspaper here. No one who really puts any thought into life really takes anything it has to say seriously, except for perhaps the sports section. It is generally right-wing, blockheaded, and sensationalist wherever possible.
Well put. Also, another Slashdotter gave a stinging indictment of the press in general:
Any time they report on something I know something about, they get it wrong, sometimes really, horribly, mind-blowingly wrong. So do they only get it right when I don't know enough about the topic? Why should this be any different?
What do I have to do to get comments like these on this blog?
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