I recently came across this...
https://www.change.org/p/nick-denton-suspended-recognize-nathan-grayson-s-lack-of-journalistic-integrity
... which is a petition asking for the recognition of Nathan Grayson's lack of journalistic integrity for having slept with Zoe Quinn.
Now, I quite enjoyed Grayson's writing when he wrote for Rock Paper Shotgun (as did many others, as evident from the comments section when he was leaving [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/07/23/love-you-all/]), and I went looking for articles of his involving Quinn. All I could find were one post on RPS, which consisted of him listing Depression Quest along with 49 other games being Greenlit (is that a verb now?) on Steam, and <url=http://tmi.kotaku.com/the-indie-game-reality-tv-show-that-went-to-hell-1555599284/all>another post on Kotaku about the clusterfuck that was the Mountain Dew game jam. Neither articles had any particular sway towards Quinn, and both were written before he was romantically involved with Zoe. He hadn't written a single article about her since then, and yet people are trying to raze his career to the ground.
Along with that, he was the only journalist involved in the scandal (the rest were all developers). If this was the extent of the evidence of 'sex-for-reviews' and nepotism in games journalism, sorry, I'm not convinced.
This is no <url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-24-lost-humanity-18-a-table-of-doritos>Doritosgate.
https://www.change.org/p/nick-denton-suspended-recognize-nathan-grayson-s-lack-of-journalistic-integrity
... which is a petition asking for the recognition of Nathan Grayson's lack of journalistic integrity for having slept with Zoe Quinn.
Now, I quite enjoyed Grayson's writing when he wrote for Rock Paper Shotgun (as did many others, as evident from the comments section when he was leaving [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/07/23/love-you-all/]), and I went looking for articles of his involving Quinn. All I could find were one post on RPS, which consisted of him listing Depression Quest along with 49 other games being Greenlit (is that a verb now?) on Steam, and <url=http://tmi.kotaku.com/the-indie-game-reality-tv-show-that-went-to-hell-1555599284/all>another post on Kotaku about the clusterfuck that was the Mountain Dew game jam. Neither articles had any particular sway towards Quinn, and both were written before he was romantically involved with Zoe. He hadn't written a single article about her since then, and yet people are trying to raze his career to the ground.
Along with that, he was the only journalist involved in the scandal (the rest were all developers). If this was the extent of the evidence of 'sex-for-reviews' and nepotism in games journalism, sorry, I'm not convinced.
This is no <url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-24-lost-humanity-18-a-table-of-doritos>Doritosgate.