Tech hacks should admit taking corporate coin, but don't start a witch hunt

Games

Games reviews seem to be a particularly harsh area for reviews.

The games companies won't send out review copies to sites/mags who say nasty things and the readers demand hot new reviews and don't seem to care how soft they are.

IMO, if you have a scale in %, some should be 10%, yet most games reviews gush.

It's easy to blame the hacks, but ultimately if you take your subscription or page views away, the site/mag dies.

We need to site the Murdoch papers here, slagged off by many and hugely popular even when it was widely known they were doing seriously criminal things to vulnerable people, not just celebs.

How much are the readers of the News of the World and the Sun to blame for the paper they pay for ?

Ever wondered if the appalling queues at airports aren't somehow connected to Daily Mail persecution of anyone not 5 generations British ?

Is the appalling treatment of coloured kids by social services in any way down to the way the Guardian panders to their bizarre ethnic views ?

Of course some shilling and general badness is hard to detect, but let's be clear here, no business that isn't a government enforced monopoly can survive if the consumers of its output reject the quality of its output.

Or put another way, you won't ever have a better press than its readership, you want a better press, then take your business away from the crap end.