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Professional game journalism is dead. Nobody wants or needs analysis from paid 'authorities' about the games they play, especially when that involves unnecessary moralizing. Such sources are no less accurate and often more opinionated than those 'unprofessional' influencers they are so eager to dismiss.
Absolute nonsense. Journalism is a real craft and it applies to the games industry as much as it applies to any other. And the suggestion that influencers are more accurate and les opinionated than actual journalists isn't just laughable, it is downright dangerous.
 

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Absolute nonsense. Journalism is a real craft and it applies to the games industry as much as it applies to any other. And the suggestion that influencers are more accurate and les opinionated than actual journalists isn't just laughable, it is downright dangerous.
Depends entirely on the journalists. Fox News and MSNBC exist. They’re journalists only in the loosest definition of the word. They’re far more akin to influencers than journalists. Real-world journalism does not match the shining Platonic ideal you seem to have in your mind. Have you read much journalism lately? It’s filled with opinion and outrage and written as clickbait with the most important bits at the end. It’s now a common style, but far from the just the facts and inverted pyramid you seem to be thinking of.
 

The OP just wants to know where you get your news from. What you get out of that information is probably a different post for a different forum.
 

Depends entirely on the journalists. Fox News and MSNBC exist. They’re journalists only in the loosest definition of the word. They’re far more akin to influencers than journalists. Real-world journalism does not match the shining Platonic ideal you seem to have in your mind. Have you read much journalism lately? It’s filled with opinion and outrage and written as clickbait with the most important bits at the end. It’s now a common style, but far from the just the facts and inverted pyramid you seem to be thinking of.
Both of those organizations have talking heads that spew opinions all the time. they also have actual newsrooms and journlaists.

Dismissing modern journalism as being too biased or clickbaity or whatever is usually a tool of those that want you to believe a thing without understanding it. Good journalism is expensive, so it is rare, but it isn't dead.
 






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