Richard Drummond of Gaming Tech United writes:
"Video game journalism. Just reading that phrase will elicit different responses from different sets of people, that will run the gamut from very angry, to the complete opposite. Some love the moniker and don it regularly, while some avoid it at all costs. Let's take a look at the problem with the "games journalism" industry and see one person's quarrels with it."

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I agree with ya here. I truly believe that there are people at these big outlets that get big heads from reaching a high number of people with their content.
I'm with you on this. That's why I think YT has been on the rise as of late. It's nice to be a part of a community of like minded people, who are all down to earth. Albeit there are some people with big heads on YT it's easy to just block them out since they're not part of a larger outlet.