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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Robert Florence fired after calling Lauren Wainwright out on her tweets.
This is the original article that Robert Florence wrote on Eurogamer @ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-24-lost-humanity-18-a-table-of-doritos
He stepped down after the motherfucker named Lauren Wainwright (here is her twitter if you wanna drop her a tweet telling her what kind of motherfucker she is for trying to claim libel, after being quoted from her own Twitter. Its @atheistium)
Here is the article, unedited.
"There is an image doing the rounds on the internet this week. It is an image of Geoff
Keighley, a Canadian games journalist, sitting dead-eyed beside a garish Halo 4 poster
and a table of Mountain Dew and Doritos. It is a tragic, vulgar image. But I think that
it is the most important image in games journalism today. I think we should all find it
and study it. It is important.
Geoff Keighley is often described as an industry leader. A games expert. He is one of
the most prominent games journalists in the world. And there he sits, right there, beside
a table of snacks. He will be sitting there forever, in our minds. That's what he is
now. And in a sense, it is what he always was. As Executive Producer of the mindless,
horrifying spectacle that is the Spike TV Video Game Awards he oversees the delivery of
a televisual table full of junk, an entire festival of cultural Doritos.
How many games journalists are sitting beside that table?
Recently, the Games Media Awards rolled around again, and games journos turned up to a
thing to party with their friends in games PR. Games PR people and games journos voted
for their favourite friends, and friends gave awards to friends, and everyone had a good
night out. Eurogamer won an award. Kieron Gillen was named an industry legend (and if
anyone is a legend in games writing, he is) but he deserves a better platform for
recognition than those GMAs. The GMAs shouldn't exist. By rights, that room should be
full of people who feel uncomfortable in each other's company. PR people should be
looking at games journos and thinking, "That person makes my job very challenging."
Why are they all best buddies? What the hell is going on?
Whenever you criticise the GMAs, as I've done in the past, you face the accusation of
being "bitter". I've removed myself from those accusations somewhat by consistently
making it clear that I'm not a games journalist. I'm a writer who regularly writes about
games, that's all. And I've been happy for people who have been nominated for GMAs in
the past, because I've known how much they wanted to be accepted by that circle. There
is nothing wrong with wanting to belong, or wanting to be recognised by your peers. But
it's important to ask yourself who your peers are, and exactly what it is you feel a
need to belong to.
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Just today, as I sat down to write this piece, I saw that there were games journalists
winning PS3s on Twitter. There was a competition at those GMAs - tweet about our game
and win a PS3. One of those stupid, crass things. And some games journos took part. All
piling in, opening a sharing bag of Doritos, tweeting the hashtag as instructed. And
today the winners were announced. Then a whole big argument happened, and other people
who claim to be journalists claimed to see nothing wrong with what those so-called
journalists had done. I think the winners are now giving away their PS3s, but it's too
late. It's too late. Let me show you an example.
One games journalist, Lauren Wainwright, tweeted: "Urm... Trion were giving away PS3s
to journalists at the GMAs. Not sure why that's a bad thing?"
Now, a few tweets earlier, she also tweeted this: "Lara header, two TR pix in the gallery
and a very subtle TR background. #obsessed @tombraider pic.twitter.com/VOWDSavZ"
And instantly I am suspicious. I am suspicious of this journalist's apparent love for
Tomb Raider. I am asking myself whether she's in the pocket of the Tomb Raider PR team.
I'm sure she isn't, but the doubt is there. After all, she sees nothing wrong with
journalists promoting a game to win a PS3, right?
Another journalist, one of the winners of the PS3 competition, tweeted this at disgusted
RPS writer John Walker: "It was a hashtag, not an advert. Get off the pedestal." Now,
this was Dave Cook, a guy I've met before. A good guy, as far as I could tell. But I
don't believe for one second that Dave doesn't understand that in this time of social
media madness a hashtag is just as powerful as an advert. Either he's on the defensive
or he doesn't get what being a journalist is actually about.
I want to make a confession. I stalk games journalists. It's something I've always done.
I keep an eye on people. I have a mental list of games journos who are the very worst of
the bunch. The ones who are at every PR launch event, the ones who tweet about all the
freebies they get. I am fascinated by them. I won't name them here, because it's a
horrible thing to do, but I'm sure some of you will know who they are. I'm fascinated by
these creatures because they are living one of the most strange existences - they are
playing at being a thing that they don't understand. And if they don't understand it,
how can they love it? And if they don't love it, why are they playing at being it?
This club, this weird club of pals and buddies that make up a fair proportion of games
media, needs to be broken up somehow. They have a powerful bond, though - held together
by the pressures of playing to the same audience. Games publishers and games press
sources are all trying to keep you happy, and it's much easier to do that if they work
together. Publishers are well aware that some of you go crazy if a new AAA title gets a
crappy review score on a website, and they use that knowledge to keep the boat from
rocking. Everyone has a nice easy ride if the review scores stay decent and the content
of the games are never challenged. Websites get their exclusives. Ad revenue keeps
rolling in. The information is controlled. Everyone stays friendly. It's a steady flow
of Mountain Dew pouring from the hills of the money men, down through the fingers of the
weary journos, down into your mouths. At some point you will have to stop drinking that
stuff and demand something better.
Standards are important. They are hard to live up to, sure, but that's the point of them.
The trouble with games journalism is that there are no standards. We expect to see Geoff
Keighley sitting beside a table of s***. We expect to see the flurry of excitement when
the GMAs get announced, instead of a chuckle and a roll of the eyes. We expect to see our
games journos failing to get what journalistic integrity means. The brilliant writers,
like John Walker for example, don't get the credit they deserve simply because they don't
play the game. Indeed, John Walker gets told to get off his pedestal because he has high
standards and is pointing out a worrying problem.
Geoff Keighley, meanwhile, is sitting beside a table of snacks. A table of delicious
Doritos and refreshing Mountain Dew. He is, as you'll see on Wikipedia, "only one of two
journalists, the other being 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, profiled in the
Harvard Business School press book 'Geeks and Geezers' by noted leadership expert Warren
Bennis." Geoff Keighley is important. He is a leader in his field. He once said, "There's
such a lack of investigative journalism. I wish I had more time to do more, sort of,
investigation." And yet there he sits, glassy-eyed, beside a table heaving with sickly
Doritos and Mountain Dew.
It's an important image. Study it."
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UwjiuUC-zMi7b_HHPexKINzRK4O6tkDbbHjHcAyG4EE/edit is another link you can save.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Yet again the New Site
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Frickin Excuse
Finally gota doamain of my own. http://frickinexcuse.net is the place to go for all the great new material.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
US NAVY RETIREMENT
I get out in a few days and will be medically retired from the United States Navy. I haven't posted anything in a moment, so I figured I would update with this. Looking forward to a new path in front of me and hoping for the best. Wish me luck guys!
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Friday, March 30, 2012
LOTTERY HIGHEST EVER IN WORLD HISTORY
Mega Millions: You have a better chance of dying from a bee sting than winning the $640M jackpot
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Wow, almost nothing there for a moment.
Yeah its been a moment since I've posted in the blog and I think it definitely needs a new update to continue on. It seems to be the most efficient way t obroadcast my material thru the social networks.
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