When companies get too big or, How I learned to love social networking

[rubikscube]

warcraft 3 anyone?

btw starcraft was extremely influential and starcraft 2 is going to be the biggest hit this year, unless you want to count halo reach. though it can get more attention, maybe starcraft 2 is just so big that no one dares to discuss a lot about it or else it will be bigger than mw2

btw, seeing that blizzard has it's own trade show, doesn't allow steam to distribute their games, making money off of subscriptions, making tons of money off of 3 hit series which include less than 10 versions of games, you're just saying the original starcraft wasn't good enough because IT WAS MADE IN 1998

[superspeck]

Kotaku uses a press pass to get into tradeshows. They get free copies of products to review. Lastly, it is owned by Gawker. I would say that's journalism.

Actually, IMHO, if it's owned by Gawker, that pretty much means it ISN'T journalism.

[eRe4s3r]

Isn't gawker the company that bashed on wikileaks and started their retarded fake wikileaks project ?

I don't think gawker even knows what Journalism means. Wikileaks is Journalism, news sites are nowadays nothing but aggregations of public events.

[Ozymandiaz]

Isn't gawker the company that bashed on wikileaks and started their retarded fake wikileaks project ?

I don't think gawker even knows what Journalism means. Wikileaks is Journalism, news sites are nowadays nothing but aggregations of public events.

/agreed!

[TheMachineIsSentient]

well, it's a matter of opinion if you think that the leak project is called good journalism. I'm not convinced; there is a lot of information concerning people who are trying to help out and are being unmasked because of this. That actually kills people, unlike gawker. I'm not saying gawker is great, often they act like a child :-) They have done some of their own investigative articles, such as the Apple phone unveiling they got sued over, and nobody died.. I can't say the same for the wikileak project.

[Ozymandiaz]

well, it's a matter of opinion if you think that the leak project is called good journalism. I'm not convinced; there is a lot of information concerning people who are trying to help out and are being unmasked because of this. That actually kills people, unlike gawker. I'm not saying gawker is great, often they act like a child :-) They have done some of their own investigative articles, such as the Apple phone unveiling they got sued over, and nobody died.. I can't say the same for the wikileak project.

Neverhteless, at least wikileak brings real news, and facts. An apple unvailing is not news, its just a PR gimmick.

I have heard a lot about folks getting killid over the leak, but thats all, I have not seen any direct atricles about folks actually getting killed. Do you have a refernce?

[eRe4s3r]

well, it's a matter of opinion if you think that the leak project is called good journalism. I'm not convinced; there is a lot of information concerning people who are trying to help out and are being unmasked because of this. That actually kills people, unlike gawker. I'm not saying gawker is great, often they act like a child :-) They have done some of their own investigative articles, such as the Apple phone unveiling they got sued over, and nobody died.. I can't say the same for the wikileak project.

The Foundation of Journalism is a scoop based on research, whistle blowers and in-depth analysis of a Topic. What Wikileaks does is do the Whistle Blowing - something 99% of the current "news" media can't do themselves anymore, or at least doesn't bother to do. Theres very very few investigative journalists still around.. and if the Company in Question is owned by Rupert Murdoch you know that they are not interested in research or detail analysis, but in profit through fear mongering and mis-information.

I am not saying that wikileaks is a good sign or thing, in a perfect world, News Agencies would do what wikileaks does (like The Guardian (UK), Spiegel (DE) ) But as it gives mere mortals access to the source documents we can see how news media falsifies information or downright constructs their own spin. Or how politicians sell the people they are supposed to serve to the big corporations.