This is getting interesting
No idea who this guy is, but he's got my respect for keeping it real
That's exactly how modern day journalism operates. Both in the gaming media and in general. A complete shite show. I dont even watch or read the news anymore as they as i dont like sneaky, filtered biased info or bandwagon news or straight up lies. I also don't like fact-checking everything, so i avoid it. Youtube news is the same. Unethical and so much dishonestly and lazy work. Its no wonder everything in the world is deteriorating these days
Update:
Let me also say, I don't completely blame the journalist and news sites. The market, aka the majority of people out there demand outrage, hysterical and negative news to conform to whatever beliefs they hold. These organizations are giving them what they want as seen by the massive amounts money and profit in negative and phony news. If people weren't so obsessed with this type of news, and were for example, biased towards objective or positive news, the media would have to change their strategy as they would lose money. Plenty of examples like this in the real world news, but to keep it in context with the gaming news, the best example I can give is the entire Epic games BS. I have a gaming laptop now and use all the applications, There's nothing hysterical, wrong, evil or pitchfork worthy with any of them. You wouldn't think that reading some of the nonsense online though.
To give a more personal example related to Shenmue, I encourage all of you to track down Spaghetti's thread called "The shameful coverage of Shenmue 3" where he went through every article and proved a lot of the info was incorrect, misleading or straight-up lies and had a lot of journalists retract their statements. Even with that done and direct proof/evidence, he was still ridiculed in subsequent days and weeks by others who wanted outrage and hysteria and refused to look at the proof/evidence even when it was right there in front of their face
Nuts