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Unfair advantage | comments bonegolem ## Board Owner 05/05/15 (Tue) 17:34:22 65f1de No.7

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www.deepfreeze.it/article.php?a=unfair

Tagline

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.

xdm 05/06/15 (Wed) 18:10:51 59efaa No.27

http://www.deepfreeze.it/article.php?a=unfair links to http://localhost/deepfreeze/article.php?a=monster - you should probably fix that ;)

bonegolem ## Board Owner 05/06/15 (Wed) 20:42:36 65f1de No.29

>>27

Just did.

Thanks.

Anonymous 05/08/15 (Fri) 15:10:13 6620bd No.130

Here's a new COI you can add:

Patrick Klepek failed to disclose a financial conflict of interest regarding his donations to Jenn Frank's Patreon.

http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Patrick_Klepek

Edit:

Philippa Warr's CoI with Terry Cavanagh has been added:

http://deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=philippa_warr

Post last edited at 05/17/15 (Sun) 20:33:22

Anonymous 05/08/15 (Fri) 15:30:34 6620bd No.131

Added another COI regarding Chris Priestman's personal relationship with Robin Arnott. He wrote a total of seven articles about his games, while failing to disclose the COI in all seven articles:

http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Corruption#Gaming_writers_covering_friends_without_disclosure_or_transparency

>Chris Priestman published a total of 6 articles about the game Antichamber on 31 January 2013, all on the same day.[69][70][71][72][73][74] He failed to disclose a personal relationship with the developer of the game, Robin Arnott, in all six articles.[75] Another article was published about the game Soundself on 8 March 2013, in which Priestman also failed to disclose this conflict of interest.[76]

Anonymous 05/17/15 (Sun) 15:13:40 e941f1 No.326

>>131

What's really funny is that Priestman himself realized that closeness between journalists and devs creates ethical problems:

https://archive.is/ndZt6

Anonymous 05/17/15 (Sun) 20:39:59 6620bd No.369

>>326

On a second note, a Facebook friendship doesn't necessarily indicate an irl friendship, but publishing six articles about the same game on one day is a bit clickbaity.

Anonymous 05/17/15 (Sun) 20:42:37 6620bd No.370

http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Destructoid#Borderlands_DLC_reviews

Two Destructoid journalists gave positive review scores to Borderland DLC, without disclosing their personal and former professional relationship with the Anthony Burch, the writer of those games.

Anonymous 06/22/15 (Mon) 20:50:18 e5566b No.637

I found something interesting about Kirk Hamilton, I wasn't sure where to post this and eventually concluded that this is the most appropriate thraed:

https://archive.is/eKyXm#selection-533.1-533.69

>Ebert said he’d happily give a friend a negative review. So would I. But if a friend was accused of a crime, or of ripping off a game idea? I haven’t been at this THAT long, but long enough to know that eliminating potential conflicts of interest can make our jobs as reporters much easier.

If I understand him correctly, he seems to believe that it's ethical for a journalist to review games made by his friends, but not ethical for a journliast to report on news stories in which his friends are involved. Should this be added to Hamilton's deepfreeze entry as trivia so readers can better know his ethical standards?