People are lashing out at journalists because the atmosphere of distrust and attack is being feed, heavily so by journalists implicated in this mess. This is resulting in people acting out.
Lets not forget that the gamergate movement is literally just a mob of angry consumers acting in a loosely cohesive direction based on being pissed off by gaming journalism's efforts and behavior. There is no leadership, there is no organization, there is just a hell of a lot of angry individual gamers. Hell, the motivations for their anger vary from outrage at journalists being too close to devs, to how they treat their readers and the people they are suppose to represent the interests of, to how they represent SJW causes, to how they taint SJW causes by soiling the name, to whatever else.
Now, all these reasons circle around the larger whole of "gaming journalism has a shit ton of issues with integrity". Hence why most people, even if their motivations are different, still try to call this an issue of journalist integrity, because the various motivations all relate to how the media handles shit.
Now, how people respond to that and try to address it, well, that is as varied as the people who make up the mob. Some try to take it up with journalists, others apply pressure to advertisers, some try to instigate legal fights, some try to ignore the sites doing it...really, you have individual approaches by people to match the makeup of the mob itself.
To borrow an analogy, it is a flock of birds. No one leader, but they all sort of move in the same general direction and act independently but with the same endgoal.
Now personally I think having some damn leadership and organization would help a lot but so far that hasn't happened. Still, individuals only represent individuals in gaming because of both anonymity and the inability to feasibly DO anything to stop or deter any action of another person before it happens, regardless how silly or ill thought out. Blaming a flock of birds because one shit on your car. Calling birds misogynist because they shit on the car of a woman.
Switch to the journalist side of things, and we have no anonymity, an organized effort to share a message and legitimate standards they are support to meet. They have leadership and organization and cooperation. And while they certainly are not a uniform force with full control over who is or is not representative of them, they do have a lot more control then the mob. Sadly, the management of the journalists implicated by this debacle have done nothing at all to rein in their own side, either by issuing statements against the harassment and behavior of their own, or by by giving a general "rule of engagement" out there showing the standard they want the debate to happen on. Instead we get more shit stirring and baiting and often by the people heavily criticized already.
So, how does this all relate to Burch? He is asking why a group that is only a collection of individuals acting out of their own accord, hasn't gone after his shit while most people are zero'd in on the journalists who actually have to adhere to and answer to the standards set by the people who they are suppose to represent: the gaming audience.
The answer why no one cares about his shit at the moment? Because he isn't important in the topic and wasn't a catalyst for the whole thing being shielded from criticism. He is just another symptom to be noted for coming out and demanding attention on the topic in a topic filled with people doing a hell of a lot more to demand attention.
Lets not forget that the gamergate movement is literally just a mob of angry consumers acting in a loosely cohesive direction based on being pissed off by gaming journalism's efforts and behavior. There is no leadership, there is no organization, there is just a hell of a lot of angry individual gamers. Hell, the motivations for their anger vary from outrage at journalists being too close to devs, to how they treat their readers and the people they are suppose to represent the interests of, to how they represent SJW causes, to how they taint SJW causes by soiling the name, to whatever else.
Now, all these reasons circle around the larger whole of "gaming journalism has a shit ton of issues with integrity". Hence why most people, even if their motivations are different, still try to call this an issue of journalist integrity, because the various motivations all relate to how the media handles shit.
Now, how people respond to that and try to address it, well, that is as varied as the people who make up the mob. Some try to take it up with journalists, others apply pressure to advertisers, some try to instigate legal fights, some try to ignore the sites doing it...really, you have individual approaches by people to match the makeup of the mob itself.
To borrow an analogy, it is a flock of birds. No one leader, but they all sort of move in the same general direction and act independently but with the same endgoal.
Now personally I think having some damn leadership and organization would help a lot but so far that hasn't happened. Still, individuals only represent individuals in gaming because of both anonymity and the inability to feasibly DO anything to stop or deter any action of another person before it happens, regardless how silly or ill thought out. Blaming a flock of birds because one shit on your car. Calling birds misogynist because they shit on the car of a woman.
Switch to the journalist side of things, and we have no anonymity, an organized effort to share a message and legitimate standards they are support to meet. They have leadership and organization and cooperation. And while they certainly are not a uniform force with full control over who is or is not representative of them, they do have a lot more control then the mob. Sadly, the management of the journalists implicated by this debacle have done nothing at all to rein in their own side, either by issuing statements against the harassment and behavior of their own, or by by giving a general "rule of engagement" out there showing the standard they want the debate to happen on. Instead we get more shit stirring and baiting and often by the people heavily criticized already.
So, how does this all relate to Burch? He is asking why a group that is only a collection of individuals acting out of their own accord, hasn't gone after his shit while most people are zero'd in on the journalists who actually have to adhere to and answer to the standards set by the people who they are suppose to represent: the gaming audience.
The answer why no one cares about his shit at the moment? Because he isn't important in the topic and wasn't a catalyst for the whole thing being shielded from criticism. He is just another symptom to be noted for coming out and demanding attention on the topic in a topic filled with people doing a hell of a lot more to demand attention.
