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All other things being equal, which they're not, I love how being interviewed for TV at work in front of hundreds of thousands of people while wearing a hideous shirt is perfectly and unproblematically equivalent to photographing oneself in a hideous shirt at home. Apparently I'm a streaker because I've been naked alone in my home, which is just the same as being naked in public.

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what's the deal with littleceasar

 

is that the name of one of those 8chan ops or whatever

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All other things being equal, which they're not, I love how being interviewed for TV at work in front of hundreds of thousands of people while wearing a hideous shirt is perfectly and unproblematically equivalent to photographing oneself in a hideous shirt at home. Apparently I'm a streaker because I've been naked alone in my home, which is just the same as being naked in public.

 

Also, the guy who threw it in my face admitted that it might be photoshopped and apologised for all the assertions he had made about her character as a result condemned the potential forgery.

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Also, the guy who threw it in my face admitted that it might be photoshopped and apologised for all the assertions he had made about her character as a result condemned the potential forgery.

 

There's an intuitive style of debate used by many people from #GamerGate that freely reproduces disproven rumors and photoshopped images because they possess a moral reality that is more important to said people than the actual reality. I don't doubt that it'll get a lot of attention whether or not a the presence of image alterations are established. Looking at it now, the way the shirt hangs and the positioning of the image certainly makes it look like it's photoshopped, but those are the least relevant factors in determining whether it's "real" or not.

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There's a (sort of but not really) recent tactic these people are pulling which is to respond to "The Whos" with extremely polite messages like "I respect your opinion, even if I disagree".

 

I'm not sure what the goal is there, but it's kind of hilarious. Kind of. "WE'LL WIN THEM OVER WITH KINDNESS! After harassing them to the point where they are physically shaken."

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TotalBiscuit decided to triple down on appealing to the gamergaters, by denying that white privilege is something that exists. It's a response to this guy's Twitter rant last night about how white privilege doesn't exist because Irish.


Last week, Jon Stewart had a running gag in one episode where he kept looking at the camera, and saying, "That joke was brought to you by context. Context, it's what let's you understand what's happening in the world, relative to everything else."

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I only passed a glance over that TB piece, because I only have so much energy for this crap. Does he ever address the fact that none of his supposed counterexamples were persecuted for being white, rather than being persecuted and also being white? Was his impoverished hometown somehow free of racism?

(Attempting to use the Holocaust as a counterexample was particularly bizarre. Did he mean to imply that Nazi Germany was exterminating the Jews because of their whiteness? The mind boggles.)

Why do I even care? The man's clearly an industrial strength plonker.

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How old is TB anyway? He has the perspective of a 14 year old. I guess that's what happens when you get paid to whine about video games and spend all your time online interacting with kids on YouTube. :iceburn:

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Does he ever address the fact that none of his supposed counterexamples were persecuted for being white, rather than being persecuted and also being white?

No, he doesn't. He's a big whiny baby manchild monster.

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I wonder how that guy would react if someone told him that Irish wasn't considered white until pretty recently.

TB or the one that I don't think I've ever heard of, either one would work. Just tell them that Irish or Italian weren't white designations until really recently, kind of like how Iranian Caucasians aren't considered white today. Would they stand by their positions?

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Was his impoverished hometown somehow free of racism?

 

He's one of a few Brit/European commenters I've now seen insinuate that racism and/or sexism don't exist across the pond, and so they find the American obsession with this stuff to be completely mystifying. Which I'm assuming (based on reading other British/European writers) that people like TB are just completely fucking blind.

I had really avoided gg and KiA for most of the last week, but I dipped back in this morning. Dammit.

So KiA is all sorts of pissed off that the Daily Dot had the audacity to point out that 8chan has boards dedicated to pedophilia. Because Free Speech means that you have to host child porn. Because ETHICS! I mean, obviously you can't really support free speech if you ban kiddie porn. Wait, wut?

And remember, this is all about ethics in gaming journalism and not the persecution of a few people who are either women, have specifically pissed off gg or are both.

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Robert Ashley commented on TB's nonsense and it seems pretty apt.

 

"Thanks to @Totalbiscuit I know now that white privilege is an American issue, and that England has no race problems. http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sihieb"

"Last time my wife was in London, she asked someone if she could walk to her hotel. Response: "Oh yeah, there aren't any blacks around here.""

"We live in Georgia and have never encountered something like that."

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Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, many of the footholds for the BNP, and before them the National Front, were/are in the sorts of poor Northern ex-mining towns that TB's talking about. Like so many extremist groups, they took advantage of the frustrations of poor communities, but the point is that it's pretty ridiculous to claim that by being white in Britain you're not benefiting from the pretty fundamental privilege of not being hated by some pretty scary organised groups of people for the colour of your skin. I'd say that's a pretty valuable privilege. I for one would not enjoy losing it.

(By none of that do I mean to imply that British racism is an exclusively Northern thing. You need only look at the quoted Robert Ashley tweet above for evidence to the contrary. I merely mean to relate racism specifically to the article that TB wrote; specifically the claim that he came from a Northern town too poor to be privileged.)

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TotalBiscuit describing the UK as a country 'where race [is] less of a factor' is just about the stupidest thing I've seen today. This is a country that's been notoriously hostile towards Indian and Pakistani people in the past, has political parties like the BNP and UKIP who build their platform on racism and xenophobia, and even now has 'immigration scares' in its national newpapers about people from Eastern Europe 'flooding into the country'. That UKIP has found the alarming foothold that it has over the past year is proof enough that race definitely is a factor in the UK.

 

Uh, in slightly more depressing news,

the developers of That Dragon, Cancer, a game about their son who died of cancer earlier in the year, after the success of their recent Kickstarter, assuming that the only reason it could be successful is because of corruption? From 8chan:

 

Unbearable Faggots, start digging. 


Given the amount of awards and news coverage this game has it should be looked into if there are financial ties which shouldn't be there.

We have articles on shitaku, australian abc, huff post, polygon, guardian… and all the other SJW places.

As a start I'm skimming over the backer list to see if any author of the linked articles backed the project. But I might very well miss names since that game has 1500 backers.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/godatplay/that-dragon-cancer/backers   

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Well, he was right he never said that she hadn't made a game, only that she had never made a real game, by herself. As opposed to Mr Ubisoft and Mr. Criterion who make real games all by themselves.

Never mind that doing Narrative Design on an award winning and rad-looking ios Game is damned impressive.

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Considering what he said about Thatcher in that latest Twitlonger post, I'd say it's pretty unlikely. But who knows! Maybe he thinks Cameron is rad?

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Uh, in slightly more depressing news,

the developers of That Dragon, Cancer, a game about their son who died of cancer earlier in the year, after the success of their recent Kickstarter, assuming that the only reason it could be successful is because of corruption? From 8chan:

 

Yeah, their new interest in That Dragon, Cancer blew up on Twitter last night. I don't know how much traction this #Op will get since it's so easily viewed as maniacal, but I was taken by the image used to begin the thread on 8chan.

 

Vivian James has been discussed here, hasn't she? The point of bringing attention to that image now is, until I got the full resolution version to link in this post this morning, it was impossible to see the tiny text at the bottom mentioning James' origins in the The Fine Young Capitalists' Indiegogo - only the relatively giant text at the top reading "SUPPORTING REAL WOMEN IN GAMES. BECAUSE WE'RE MISOGYNISTS, RIGHT?" - which, if you're not totally familiar with her history, can't see the minuscule invocation of TFYC, and only know her as the de facto GamerGate mascot (although obviously GamerGate will pedantically refute allegations that she is), bears the obvious implication that Vivian-kun represents the aforementioned "real women in games" as more than a mascot for charity but as who they should be in character.

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So KiA is all sorts of pissed off that the Daily Dot had the audacity to point out that 8chan has boards dedicated to pedophilia. Because Free Speech means that you have to host child porn. Because ETHICS! I mean, obviously you can't really support free speech if you ban kiddie porn. Wait, wut?

 

I got into an argument like that with someone on facebook, who is a *chan user and argued that kicking kiddie porn/upskirt/celebrity nudes/exploitation/etc. off any website would be the equivalent to banning roads or pubs. When I pointed that no, it would be equivalent to policing roads and pubs, which is a thing we do, he just doubled down and kept repeating himself.

 

Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, many of the footholds for the BNP, and before them the National Front, were/are in the sorts of poor Northern ex-mining towns that TB's talking about.

(By none of that do I mean to imply that British racism is an exclusively Northern thing.

 

Racism is one of the few things we have that transcends our absurdly large class barriers :(

 

Middle class racism tends to be the most casual and ashamed of itself, because middle class people (not excluding myself from this) seems to live in homogenous neighbourhoods.

 

 

Uh, in slightly more depressing news,

the developers of That Dragon, Cancer

 

From Josh:

"Hey all, we have not received any direct harassment or threats from #gamergate or anyone else."

 

Of course, they're being grandiose about it and trying to appear magnanimous/competent:

"I'm very proud to say that after checking in with #gamergate investigators, That Dragon Cancer is essentially clean. Go ahead and donate!"

 

Investigation in this context meaning anything from "Flinging the same already disproven allegations out forever" to "Shit. Fuck. Shit. Fuck. Back away slowly".

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It's almost as if they drew exactly the same set of tenuous connections, then spotted that the PR fuckup they were on the brink of was an order of magnitude greater than most things that have tarnished their reputation so far.

 

I know people on the fence about feminism and who've ignored GG, but if it targeted a family and their dead child, those same people would be calling for blood.

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