I didn't hold the gaming press to high standard in the first place. In my opinion, not many were doing an actual journalist work and most of the time doing an opinion work about games and reposting press releases sent by publishers.
But after the whole THQN stuff, which for those who may not know about, is basically a few higher ups from THQ Nordic, taking the decision to hold an official AMA on a website known for hosting child pornography, drawn but also real one, and doubling down on that decision, to then pretend it was a mistake on their end and didnt make proper research (when it's obvious even when you step on said website). As of right now, no actions from THQN has been taken toward these higher ups.
But the other problematic thing that happened following that is the weak press coverage. Sure, a few did their job reporting it accurately but others talked about it in a lame way as a "whoopsie they made a mistake !".
And today ? Well they totally let that slip away.
We're talking about a key members of a big publisher giving a spot to a website hosting child pornography and here we have the press being lenient toward that, when, if they had a fuckin spine, they should've collectively take the decision to stop covering THQN stuff and stop reviewing their games until proper actions were taken. If the biggest websites and editors in chief just decided that, the whole thing would've been resolved in a few days and THQN would've had no choice but to take proper actions, if they wanted their promotion back.
In the end, none of that happened. Crazy.
In any other industry or in any serious press, the journalists would keep coming at them until an actual answer was given. They'd keep pressing them until something was done.
Imagine if Disney hosted an AMA on a website hosting child pornography ?
Imagine if Apple hosted ab AMA on a website hosting racist content ?
The press would go insane on that.
But not the gaming press, who decided to remain the obedient and lenient promotion tool.
I basically feel like that, save for a few persons, the whole gaming press is nothing but a spineless advertisment billboard. I knew they werent the most pro-consumers, but now I know they are totally at the boots of publishers.