Is the Game Media Being Oblivious?

MaryAlan writes "The National Summit on Video Games, Youth, and Public Policy was this weekend, and almost no one from the game media showed up. In fact, the game industry seems to pretty much be ignoring the whole event. There's an article up on GamesFirst, which attended the summit, that criticizes the mainstream game press pretty hard for not attending. Apparently only one game journalist showed up. From the article: 'The video game media owes it to our readers to come to events like this and listen, come here and think, and come here and base our editorials on the reality of what's being said instead of an interpretation of the talking points that are published afterwords. Too many of the people discussing these issues in forums do so based on the works of the game media, and too few in the gaming media are spending the time to make it justified.'"

Re:Guess they didn't learn

[DragonWriter]

No, there are no real reporters in the game media.

The word "game" in this sentence is superfluous.

I guess theyre

[Lispy]

too busy gaming!

Actually..

[onion2k]

From the no-one-attended-the-antarctic-bikini-fashion-show- either dept

Oh but I did. And those nipples... dear lord those nipples!

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In my experience...

[argStyopa]

(chance that you find a 'game media' journalist at an event) = (0.5*(chance of bags of swag))+(0.75*(chance of free games given away))+(1.0*(chance of seeing bodacious T&A))

Clearly, this event had little chance.