Gamergate

What is journalism?

According the the American Press Institute journalism is Journalism is gathering, processing, and dissemination of news and information related to the news to an audience.
For the past few weeks, gaming journalism has been under the spotlight due to allegations of corruption and  bias towards indie game developers who reporters financially supported or had personal ties/business ties to.
Many of the reporters were quick to hide under the idea that they had been “blogging” rather than reporting and that it was important for developers and reporters to get along with each other in the close knit indie game community.
Further more, feminists and other left leaning social justice warriors told the public a narrative that the gamers who disagreed with Zoe Quinn and the other journalism sites connected to the bias were sexist and that the movement was rooted in the misogynistic viewpoint of 4chan and gamers.

This is simply not true.
The Gamergate movement is not a movement with its ideology rooted deep in misogyny and anti-social justice as many people have been reporting it to be. Gamergate is about an issue much larger than that.
The Gamergate movement is a movement that believes that reporters should not be bias towards the games they are reporting on, and that if they do believe they are writing a blog it should be marked off as one rather than news.
The Gamergate movement stands for transparency with funds and the backgrounds of the reporters writing articles and running different websites.
The Gamergate movement is one rooted in the idea that fans should be able to trust a report and not have to worry about the fact that the report could have been barely, if at all, factual.

We are not misogynistic, woman hating men, but rather a group of people united to change the way the gaming journalism industry works and improve the relationship between fans and the reporter rather than the current relationship of reporters and developers.
We would like to see changes in policy and employees held responsible for their own actions.
Gamergate is about the truth, and that’s what we will continue to search for and fight for.