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David Jaffe vs. Journalism

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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Like an ancient Jedi Master of old slipping through the fog of the past to return to the light, David Jaffe has made his presence known on the Internet once more. Jaffe supplies us with yet another of his classic rants, but with a twist -- journalism has gone and done him wrong.

As the creative brainpower behind the hugely successful God of War, Jaffe had transformed into a sort of digital hermit after renouncing the Internet and its evil ways, yanking his Twitter and blog websites due to dis-proportioned comments and gratuitous Internet trollery.

After a recent diatribe on the absurdity of the Australia's handling of video games, it seemed that Jaffe had returned to his post as a rally against all things confounding in the video game world, and life could resume at a normal pace.

Yet, out of the gloomy darkness of media hell arose a foe that Jaffe has chosen to be the subject of his latest tirade -- journalists.

Stung by the way he had been portrayed by certain members of the media, Jaffe snidely remarks on the (lack of) fact-checking methods that journalists employ to bring credence to their stories, along with slamming the abundant use of "bullshit" sensationalist headlines.

Check out the video here.

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Comments (6)
Redeye
December 08, 2009
I don't think their is any form of Journalism that isn't rife with overzealous jerks taking things out of context. Tis a shame.
Default_picture
December 08, 2009
Jerry is correct, and much more so on the Internet unfortunately...
Default_picture
December 08, 2009
Jeffery I meant, sorry...
Jayhenningsen
December 08, 2009
Apparently he feels the appropriate response is to sarcastically imply that all "video games news people" are incapable of fact checking or keeping comments in context. I'm not going to pretend that this doesn't happen, but it's a bit overblown on his part to blame us like we're one big, incompetent group. I think the video was mildly entertaining but ultimately pointless. I am glad to hear that posting videos on YouTube doesn't count as using the internet, though.
Default_picture
December 09, 2009
Sadly, I have to agree with Jaffe when it comes to the use of sensationalism, but that's not really exclusive to game journalism.
Lance_darnell
December 09, 2009
I just wish Jaffe would release great games instead of interesting viewpoints on game journalism.

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