There's a major problem with that: He'd already picked his side, so I have every reason he deliberately chose tweets that furthered his agenda.
Then again, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's less biased in his reporting than I thought. But if that's the case, there's one thing he overlooked: Quinn, Sarkeesian, and Wu have been in the media spotlight far more than, say, Nathan Grayson or Ben Kuchera. It seems likely that many of those tweets came from somebody who stumbled on the controversy by reading about it in the New York Times or watching CNN.
Well bias in reporting is a given and it doesn't mean dick unless you can meaningfully demonstrate how it affects the article. Unbiased reporting is a myth.
See above. And as for Leigh Alexander, I think the publicity about the Intel boycott might have something to do with it.
How?
So, you can distinguish between criticism and harassment.
And those tweets aren't irrelevant, they were brought up to demonstrate that the author had already chosen his side.
Which is not relevant unless you can show us how it affects his article.
I have no reason to believe they're co-conspirators, they're just on the same wavelength. And don't worry, I'll try to stop implying that everybody against GamerGate is in one group.
Well, that'd make a nice change.
There are problems with that Newsweek article UP but the Gamergate pic you posed didn't debunk anything, frankly the data shown in the newsweek article ain't a hill I'd choose to die on. It shows that a marketing firm collected statistics based on people tweeting about names, it doesn't show how they determined the positivity or negativity of statements and tells us nothing as to whether the tweeters were pro or opposed to the Gamergate cause so in light of that I'll have to reverse my statement that it shows that Gamergaters are bellyaching about these people more than journalism because-it doesn't.
A negative statement in a tweet about Sarkeesian could still conceivably be one supporting Sarkeesian but using negative language to describe people opposed to her. But that's ok, I have more and better reasons for believing that pro Gamergate people are focussed on attacking folk demons more than they are on seriously addressing ethics in videogame journalism-a claim so silly it's turned into a successful meme almost overnight.
