Wow, that is pathetic. They spent that much time worrying about
game journalism? It looks like a really elaborate attempt to cover for their extremely bad behavior. Most of their "issues" are pretty much "so the
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what?". Like journalists being friends with some of the people they cover, you work long enough in a field and you make acquaintances. It's like looking at TMZ and actually giving a shit what Kim Kardascian had for lunch today and whether they accurately report what salad dressing she chose.
I grew up with magazines like Nintendo Power, which never met an NES game that wasn't the "best thing evah".