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Wallace said:
Wonder if this is the next step in outrage journalism: slapfights between different sites?
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Sounds reasonable to me. Once the target demographic is all carved up and there's no new territory to harvest, turf wars become the natural evolution.

We've seen it happen with artisanal microbreweries, I bet we'll see it here.
 
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Alec Benson Leary said:
Sounds reasonable to me. Once the target demographic is all carved up and there's no new territory to harvest, turf wars become the natural evolution.

We've seen it happen with artisanal microbreweries, I bet we'll see it here.
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The UK has a long tradition of microbreweries and I haven't seen any turf wars here. What's different in the United States?
 
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The UK has a long tradition of microbreweries and I haven't seen any turf wars here. What's different in the United States?
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I'm referring specifically to the emerging trend of breweries suing each other over things like beer names. Here is one article on the subject but there is a bunch more to be found. Basically, after 20 years and 8,000 new microbrews they're all running out of ideas.
 
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When was that?
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Like literally the first six months that Kotaku was open, when they were trying to prove themselves as a viable competitor to those two sites, and they actually had good reviews and articles. They also didn't publish retarded social justice opinion pieces.

Once they "established themselves" they went down the shitter really fast.
 
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Wallace said:
Wonder if this is the next step in outrage journalism: slapfights between different sites?
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The best part is that what they are falling prey to was their modus operandi during any number of other Twitter outrages. For example, an article was published on a "racist Tweet" sent by some nobody using her personal Twitter on a plane trip before she had a chance to land.
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For a more systemic example, whenever Kotaku mentioned Eron Gjoni they seemed to make a point of never notifying the guy of an article's impending publication, let alone seek a comment from him. When you look at an excerpt of the Crash Override logs, Zoe Quinn got pissed at one journalist (not Polygon or Kotaku) just for seeking a comment from Eron for one of her fluff pieces.
Jason Schreier was part of Kotaku at a time when requesting a comment from the subject of your article before publishing his ex's accusations about domestic abuse, stalking, etc. apparently became unethical in the game journalist community and yet he still has the balls to act indignant over something which does not even involve unfounded accusations of sexual assault. What did he expect?

TL;DR:
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