{"id":495,"date":"2005-02-21T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2005-02-21T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T19:27:00","slug":"radical-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/21\/radical-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpygamer.com\/8707523\">Ron Gilbert suggests<\/a> 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 &#8220;exclusive&#8221;?  The word &#8220;exclusive&#8221; 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?<\/p>\n<p>One part I particularly agreed with was the part about e-mail interviews.  When I&#8217;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 &#8220;How did you get into the industry?&#8221;  (Actually, how <strong>I<\/strong> got into game development has become meaningless today as you couldn&#8217;t recreate what happened to me in the current industry climate.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;exclusive&#8221;? The word &#8220;exclusive&#8221; has actually become meaningless, due to its misuse &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/21\/radical-ideas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radical ideas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}