17th July 2011, 11:37 PM
Web sites CAN have investigative journalists though. Just look at some of the gaming news sites, where people actually do call developers and organize interviews. There's nothing prohibiting that for more important news. As for "paying the bills", cut the fluff. No news show needs a "situation room". Every last news report can be given in front of a simple wooden desk in front of a blue screen, no exceptions. Any news site that wants to stand out just needs to prove their worth, just like any newspaper did.
Anyway, I really don't care about video game news magazines. Their information is late compared to the internet, and videos say a lot more than any picture. As for demo disks, download them. The argument of being "exposed to games you otherwise might not try" applies equally well to demos on the front page of the big online game stores, only better because it can be updated quicker than once a month.
The internet is the future of news. As protocols allow it to be more closely intertwined and more convenient in places where radio and TV currently stand, it'll be less and less appealing to bother with the "steady feed of whatever we want to you watch/hear" method. There will still be a place for it, emergency broadcasts mostly, but heck even "up to the minute" stuff can be managed via RSS feeds. I don't currently subscribe to "feeds" myself because most of what I check up on I don't care to have a constant update on, but soon that'll change when things like official weather warning channels and presidential announcement channels get going.
Anyway, I really don't care about video game news magazines. Their information is late compared to the internet, and videos say a lot more than any picture. As for demo disks, download them. The argument of being "exposed to games you otherwise might not try" applies equally well to demos on the front page of the big online game stores, only better because it can be updated quicker than once a month.
The internet is the future of news. As protocols allow it to be more closely intertwined and more convenient in places where radio and TV currently stand, it'll be less and less appealing to bother with the "steady feed of whatever we want to you watch/hear" method. There will still be a place for it, emergency broadcasts mostly, but heck even "up to the minute" stuff can be managed via RSS feeds. I don't currently subscribe to "feeds" myself because most of what I check up on I don't care to have a constant update on, but soon that'll change when things like official weather warning channels and presidential announcement channels get going.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)