CNN provides surprisingly spot-on pre-E3 coverage

[Mental]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/01/e3.v ... pstoryview

[Imakeholesinu]

Bah, CNN is just using Kotaku to do their reporting.

[SineSwiper]

Bah, CNN is just using Kotaku to do their reporting.

And Joystiq, and AOL GameDaily.

[Mental]

It's better than the days when half the coverage was condescending and the other half was wrong. It seems like mainstream media is finally catching on to the fact that videogames are not going away (even as they themselves start facing existential threat from the Internet).

[Imakeholesinu]

It's better than the days when half the coverage was condescending and the other half was wrong. It seems like mainstream media is finally catching on to the fact that videogames are not going away (even as they themselves start facing existential threat from the Internet).

I'm not sure if I want mainstream media in my gaming. Look what reality TV and entertainment news has done to mainstream media. Susan Boyle gets more press than an airbus plane disappearing over the Atlantic.

[Mental]

Actually, that Airbus has been getting some serious press. I've seen a bunch of stories. The concept also scares the shit out of me, because they're just, like, gone, no communication, nothing, just into the drink and lost into that shadowy 3/4 of the Earth's surface that we rarely explore. If I lost someone like that, it would be way harder than if there was an actual crash site and a report.

Anyway, the mainstream media may not last nearly as long as videogames. They're in trouble. For anyone who hates journalism by professionally trained journalists, your time to celebrate is coming, because within a decade or two there may be no paying positions for them.

[SineSwiper]

It's better than the days when half the coverage was condescending and the other half was wrong. It seems like mainstream media is finally catching on to the fact that videogames are not going away (even as they themselves start facing existential threat from the Internet).

Of course, they are saying that because they are claiming that casual gamers are the in thing. Mainstream media claiming that games are mainstream? Nooooo.

[Mental]

Actually, that Airbus has been getting some serious press. I've seen a bunch of stories. The concept also scares the shit out of me, because they're just, like, gone, no communication, nothing, just into the drink and lost into that shadowy 3/4 of the Earth's surface that we rarely explore. If I lost someone like that, it would be way harder than if there was an actual crash site and a report.

This makes it harder to keep writing stories about it, too. What do you say? "Airbus Still Completely Buttfuck Vanished, Everyone You Love Presumed Dead"

[SineSwiper]

This makes it harder to keep writing stories about it, too. What do you say? "Airbus Still Completely Buttfuck Vanished, Everyone You Love Presumed Dead"

Unless somebody wants to claim that it was taken by a larger alien spacecraft, the airbus is gone and everybody is dead. Nobody walks away from a plane crash.