News Without the Snark
I would love to see a gaming news blog without the snark of Kotaku.
It's something that bugs me about blogs in general - the merger of news and opinion into one whole. Chastise them for editorializing everything, and they'll insist they can do it because they are a blog. Yet, at the same time, they want to be treated like a serious purveyor of news. It's a catch-22 and blogs love to straddle this line. As they become increasingly integrated into the global media, it's a concerning contradiction.
Let's be clear, all media organizations have some degree of bias. The difference is where you draw that line between raw news and the editorial section. If some commentator wants to appear at the end of a newscast and deliver an opinion about something, that's fine. But you don't allow the preceding anchorpeople to make a snide remark about every story they report on. That's why the pundits have their own section of the newscast. That's why newspapers have the editorial section. It's an attempt to indicate where news ends and opinion begins, crude as that line may be.
If you can't make the news "fun" without adding your own spin, you're not doing your job.
It's something that bugs me about blogs in general - the merger of news and opinion into one whole. Chastise them for editorializing everything, and they'll insist they can do it because they are a blog. Yet, at the same time, they want to be treated like a serious purveyor of news. It's a catch-22 and blogs love to straddle this line. As they become increasingly integrated into the global media, it's a concerning contradiction.
Let's be clear, all media organizations have some degree of bias. The difference is where you draw that line between raw news and the editorial section. If some commentator wants to appear at the end of a newscast and deliver an opinion about something, that's fine. But you don't allow the preceding anchorpeople to make a snide remark about every story they report on. That's why the pundits have their own section of the newscast. That's why newspapers have the editorial section. It's an attempt to indicate where news ends and opinion begins, crude as that line may be.
If you can't make the news "fun" without adding your own spin, you're not doing your job.