Radical ideas

Ron Gilbert suggests that games journalism should take the industry to task much more and in the main I agree with him, though will it ever happen when magazines are regularly sucking up to publishers and developers in the hope of getting an "exclusive"? The word "exclusive" has actually become meaningless, due to its misuse in the media of all kinds. How, for instance, can two magazines both claim to hav an exclusive on the same subject/game/developer/etc?

One part I particularly agreed with was the part about e-mail interviews. When I'm pushed for time and am asked to do an interview, I have been known to copy and paste from other interviews if the questions are the same. There are only limited ways you can answer a question like "How did you get into the industry?" (Actually, how I got into game development has become meaningless today as you couldn't recreate what happened to me in the current industry climate.)