{"id":220,"date":"2007-01-23T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2007-01-23T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T18:06:00","slug":"videogame-journalism-lost-genres-in-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/01\/videogame-journalism-lost-genres-in-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogame journalism &#8211; lost genres in journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">Y<\/span>ou know journalism must be in trouble when even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygame.net\/news\/archives\/006215.php\" target=\"_blank\">videogame journalism is in crisis<\/a>. OK, so it&#8217;s easy to mock&#8230;and I must admit a smile did cross my lips as I read the piece, but if you keep on reading <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jonas Allen<\/span>&#8216;s jeremiad for a corner of journalism I didn&#8217;t even know existed, there are some interesting points being made.  Not sure I agree with them all, but here&#8217;s his pay-off: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The more blogs that get traction, the harder it is for journalistic sites to fund their professional ventures, and the fewer journalists actually stick with the program. At that point we&#8217;re left with nothing more than &#8220;press release whores&#8221; who post &#8220;news&#8221; directly from the publishers. And the last time I checked, publishers were out to make money on their products, not provide fair and balanced coverage of them.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time for The Big Sites to re-evaluate their definition of &#8220;news,&#8221; for publishers to evaluate the value of their news rather than its volume, and for the industry to reach consumers with more emotive and innovative products rather than a bunch of genre clones. If these stars align, videogame journalism might just avoid its own cannibalistic industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Golly. It&#8217;s everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know journalism must be in trouble when even videogame journalism is in crisis. OK, so it&#8217;s easy to mock&#8230;and I must admit a smile did cross my lips as I read the piece, but if you keep on reading Jonas Allen&#8216;s jeremiad for a corner of journalism I didn&#8217;t even know existed, there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}