mattpeckham said:
Right, but look BN, let's stop dancing around the core issue. I know its 2007 and go postmodernism and everyone's decided they get to apply their own personal interpretation of what "is" is, but in reality, by your own admission, you purposefully excluded your NMA creds because you knew you wouldn't get in. I don't care, I'm not passing judgment, I'm just observing a behavior that, in aggregate, makes my job that much harder. Boohoo, I know, but true any way you shake it.
I think that's more a flaw of your job than of our behaviour, though. It really isn't NMA's fault if you guys let yourself be pushed around by game publishers.
mattpeckham said:
Forced by their own behavior? What, because Bethesda was up front about wanting to have a press only demo sans fansites, NMA's supposed to come off as heroic for sneaking in?
Sneaking in? Bethesda never explicitly told us we
weren't welcome, either (until after the fact). We just chose not to notify them. By Matt Grandstaff's own, later, admittance, we were never allowed as a fansite, but he notes that since we got in as journalists, we got in, period. To my knowledge, nothing Bethesda or any industry has prescribed means that we can't write for another institution that we came for.
If I try looking at it as you are, then Bethesda was effectively blacking us out, and we got around that. I don't see how you could possibly paint us as the bad guys in that picture.
Heroic? No, we did our job, there's not heroic about that, no more than anything villainous.
There's never been a less credible source for anything in modern history.
You kind of missed the fact that the poster was referring to how you might have checked where we got our pictures and quotes, it was easy enough to check. Instead, you chose to make assumptions and go in guns blazing. I don't care what your blog is or what standards you hold it up to, but I get the impression you're just making yourself look silly with all these unfounded accusations and then violently defending them while probably knowing all of them are unfounded. A little bit of introspective workings might be needed. But hey, all your call.
When someone can openly admit what they did was deceitful while simultaneously claiming to have integrity...
You define journalistic integrity not by the way the journalist reports his information but how he gets them? That may be valid for paparazzi, but the fact that you view it that way is a really sad commentary on the state of gaming journalism.
There's nothing false in my post (I don't lay claim to anything as absolute fact).
Yes, your editings are beginning to improve it, that doesn't change the fact that you have not apologized for accusing of for taping the event and releasing ill-gotten screencaps with no basis for your accusations, or that you're personally attacking us "a couple kids without scruples." Which is just a cheap, personal, unprovoked attack. It's funny that you would actually say you're not making "false, negative accusations about the characters of." Calling us a pair of kids with no scruples isn't a false, negative accusation of our character? On what planet, exactly?
But envy? Hey, I admitted that much in the post!
*shrug* Perhaps, if you are aware of being envious, you should recompose yourself and take a long look at your neutrality in the matter, and the hot-headed nature of your accusations towards NMA.
You can't be "deceitful" and not break the rules, okay?
How so? What rule did we break? What rule of Bethesda said "you must reveal all affiliations to any sites and provide a list of sites you'll write for"? Had they asked who we were going to write for, we'd have no choice to either supply the list with "NMA" on it, or to lie and break the rules. But they didn't ask, so we broke no rules.
PS: I think Pete was a bit annoyed with me. I sat right next to him, the constant scratch-scratch-scratch must've got on his nerves. Maybe that will RUIN RELATIONS WITH BETHESDA FOREVER OH NOEZ?
