Journalism in Gaming and how we can improve it.

For those of you who don't know, I did a little bit of journalism in High School. I liked it a lot but at the time, I wasn't very focused so I didn't stay too long. Then again, what high schooler doesn't lack focus. A large part of me doing this blog is trying to get back into that journalist sense. However, I am not a traditional Journalist mainly due to the fact that I'm not here to report the news. I don't have the time nor the access to be a game news reporter, however much I would lost to be one. Journalism used to entail telling the news in as fast a way as possible with as little bias as possible. In the past few years, gaming journals and journalism at large has changed.

A bit of a touchy subject in journalism is the advent of the 24 hour news network. If there is one that is picked apart the most, at least here in the States, it would be Fox News. The channel has faces allegations of fudging the news, leaving out improtant details in order to lead the viewer to a certain opinion. I don't watch Fox News myself but let's just say I'm not the biggest fan of the O'Reily Factor.

I consider myself a frequenter of Kotaku.com, mainly because it gets the news the fastest. The only problem is that this news is filled with swearing, personal comments and loads of controversy which has tarnished its reputation. In fact, most gaming news sights suffer from this. This is an issue with many other websites as well. I remember one time, Destructoid used a picture of Link and Sonic during coitus as one of there header pictures to a post. This post to be exact.

While I'm not against fan art or pornography in general, I feel like there is a time and a place and this just felt incredibly inappropriate. I feel that the gaming community at large would benefit greatly with a return to more traditional journalism. That's not to say we should give up on the culture that we have grown together as gamers. There is still a place for those wacky posts. But it wouldn't hurt to have a journalist outlet for games that tells the facts and just the facts, leaving the decision of who is the good guy and bad guy up to the most important person of all, the reader.

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