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Low-effort and sensationalist journalism causing embarrassing mistakes and life-ruining consequences

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Originally published as infograph on January 8, 2015 — is.gd/ggquick.

Republished as article on May 5th 2015, adding a new section about the Max Temkin accusations.

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Some of the most incriminating stories uncovered this far about the secret mailing list of the game journalism elite

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Originally published as infograph on November 28, 2014 — is.gd/ggsecrets.

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Deepfreeze.it is a website that primarily concerns itself with the unethical practices of game journalists. This means that people like Christina Hoff Sommers, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ralph, The Honey Badgers, Hotwheels, game developers (unless they work/used to work in game journalism) and DiGRA academics will not be added to DeepFreeze. Threads which demand these people to be added to the website will likely be deleted. Other threads about concerns that have already been addressed will be deleted to prevent new/important concerns from being drowned out.

Read more about it here: http://deepfreeze.it/advanced_guidelines.php#entry-equal

Also:

SARAH NYBERG IS BANNED FROM THIS BOARD

FAQ:

>why aren't Ralph and Milo on DeepFreeze?

Neither of the two are game journalists.

>then why are there so many people listed as 'non-journalists'?

This either means that the information is incomplete, or that the person is no longer working in game journalism.

The label 'former journalist' or 'formerly in journalism' might replace the title in the future.

Also, a small number of journalists that were involved in the Max Temkin, Brad Wardell and 'gamers are dead' articles have been added for the sake of completion.

>how are conflicts of interest filed?

Patricia Hernandez writing six times about her friend Anna Antrophy counts as one conflict of interest.

Counting all six articles as individual entries would unnecessarily inflate the total amount of improprieties.

>how are members of the GJP filed?

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The relationship on the brink of corruption between media and game industry exploded in the 2012 scandal

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Originally published as infograph on November 8, 2014 — is.gd/ggdoritos.

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Gamers are entitled, Gamers are dead — Game journalists' unique contempt for their shrinking audience

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Originally published as infograph on December 24, 2014 — is.gd/gghand.

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Some journalists give privileged access to the gaming industry based on friendship rather than on merits

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Originally published as two infographs

November 1, 2014 — is.gd/ggkotaku

November 1, 2014 — is.gd/ggunfair

Republished as article on May 5th 2015, merging the two infographs and adding several CoIs — among others:

- Kuchera with Zoe Quinn and SportsFriends

- Grayson with Diedra Kiai, Porpentine, Nick Chester

- Kirk Hamilton with Fullbright

- Cara Ellison with Anna Anthrophy, Nina Freeman, Fullbright

And several more.

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Altered game scores casting doubts on all reviewers’ sincerity

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Originally published as three infographs

November 1, 2014 — is.gd/gggamespot

November 1, 2014 — is.gd/ggsimcity

November 15, 2014 — is.gd/ggnumber

Republished as article on May 5th 2015, merging the three infographs and adding an introduction paragraph.

Patrick Keplek has released an e-mail of someone he contacted as a quote without her consent on the whole Alison Rapp thing.

This is chronicled here:

https://archive.is/ocewv

https://archive.is/LKeUt

https://archive.is/uTpsE

http://archive.is/n1ZfM

He used it in this article:

https://archive.is/Xi9Zf

This is his defense:

https://archive.is/3DJmZ

I believe this goes against the SPJ Code of ethics, in particular under the "Minimize Harm" section:

>Recognize that legal access to information differs from an ethical justification to publish or broadcast.

>Realize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than public figures and others who seek power, influence or attention. Weigh the consequences of publishing or broadcasting personal information.

And possibly goes against the section "Seek The Truth and Report it"

>Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information unless traditional, open methods will not yield information vital to the public.

I believe this should warrant at the very least a trivia entry.

Cross posting this from >>>/gamergatehq/315220

This is old news but I'm reposting it because it didn't get attention during the site problems. Pocket Tactics was bought by Slitherine in August and didn't bother to announce it until December 30th while shilling their games. A month ago they finally announced it and named their parent company "Creator of the Year 2015 Runner Up".

Original KIA post pointing this out:

red*dit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3ytah1/ethics_pocket_tactics_a_strategy_games_review/

Announcement:

https://archive.is/nouGs

Looks like there were 17 articles since August covering Slitherine without disclosure:

http://pastebin.com/Ax6JTNTh

It also might be good to check if there's been any developments since then.

Sourced from /gghq/

So, There is an Associate Editor at IGN by the name of Brendan Graeber, who uses the Handle "RaggaFragga"

This is his Twitter Handle - https://twitter.com/Ragga_Fragga

Here you can see him touting "5 awesome Metroid Levels in Mario Maker" www.ign.com/videos/2015/09/17/5-awesome-metroid-levels-in-super-mario-maker-made-in-mario

and he's also done a 5 awesome Zelda videos.

Brendan is also responsible for most of the Wiki's on the website.

This all seems nice and innocent, but in these videos, The people that made the "awesome Zelda/Metroid" levels are all made from users of a streaming website that Brendan visits called "Vidya Shorts", where he is a well respected member of their Autismo community. Brendan doesn't hide this on his twitter page, but fails to mention that his friends made the levels. He's basically whoring out his friends streams and not disclosing it.

On top of that, if you spend a short amount of time on VidyaShorts you can see "RaggaFragga" offering early copies of games/press swag to users, if they write his wiki/faq's for him, and he does not disclose this either.

You can't spell IGN without Ignorant.

What can we do about this bullshit?

Could we have a page explaining the power of MetaCritic? And through MetaCritic the power these journalists get? The page of Arthur Gies has me on the fense due to the fact he wrote his reviews based on his feminist pov which isn't unethical but unfortunately has way too much influence on the success of a game due to the MetaCritic score that aggregates his review just because its on a big site. In other words his review isn't really a problem but MetaCritic itself which gives powers to the professional reviewers instead of the consumers say Rotten Tomatoes. They both have a critic score and an audience score. MC holds the critic score higher RT holds the audience score mainly. In the end we want DeepFreeze to be neutral as it can be. We don't want to be thought police. They can have their feminism but in the end want our informed choices.

Thank you for reading.

I propose adding another entry on Stephen Totilo's profile.

As the EiC of Kotaku, he has the duty of maintaining the ethical standards on his website - and this goes in double since he has an actual journalism degree.

However, Kotaku has no published ethics policy to be held accountable by, which makes it easy to bend the unseen rules whenever its convenient.

Totilo has defended this stance on more than one occasion, such as here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/37madz/according_to_drew_magary_moral_at_gawker_is/cro3nvk

I also remember him mentioning before that he wanted to avoid people looking for "gotchas", but I forgot where he said that (perhaps it was at the TB interview - hopefully anons can help).

I'm unsure on the emblem this should be featured at, but at the very least, I'd say it is worth including it as a Trivia if nothing else.

An introduction to the situation: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2015/08/24/something-you-need-to-know-about-those-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-reviews/

A starting list of reviewers: >>>/gamergatehq/259390

Some of the relevant info can be dug, but like an anon suggested in that thread, we might be able to contact some reviewers and compile any info they're comfortable giving anonymously.

Anne Thériault

Writer for Canada Land

Wrote a hit piece about Christie Blatchford, another journo who is reporting on the Canadian twitter trial.

Thériault admits in the article that she is personally friends with Guthrie, the subject of Blatchford's story.

https://archive.is/akQg7#selection-124.1-139.14

However if you look at the following youtube video you can see that Guthrie, the subject of blachford's story is herself has has been brought on to Canadaland as an "expert"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWwJ8TVZl-Y