I don't think I've seen any of them outright support Zoe's stance on TFYC, so if they did it's news to me, but not covering the jam in the first place was a bit of a double standard on their part. I'm sure they rationalized the decision in their mind somehow.
Who is telling you what you should be offended by, though?
Actions are more important to me than words and they did shut down all reporting of TYFC's harassment and their Jam in general. Their interaction with Chloi apparently went as follows:
TFYC said:
We approached a journalist and got a response for Chloi Rad at Indiestatik, who liked the project and did an interview. Upon her arrival at the GDC, we assumed she would publish the article. We contacted her at GDC when we were having more Twitter problems with another user, asking when she was going to publish the article. She said she would talk to Zoe Quinn while she was at GDC. Chloi Rad did not get back us for about a week. We were doing an AMA on Reddit, which included drawings, and we did a drawing of Chloi as a means of getting her attention. Chloi asked us to immediately remove her name/picture from the AMA and explained that Zoe had told her that the project was highly exploitative and that we were transphobic. She made it clear she didn’t want to be associated with us. All the issues Zoe had with the project were addressed in the interview but Chloi never published the article.
No research just Zoe's opinion. And we now know that the pros email list were all backing Quinn in general so how incredibly hard must it have been for TFYC to get any journalist to come near them.
I'm sure you're well aware that feminists like Sommers are few and far between. The majority of "feminists" who talk about gaming are SJWs and will happily tell me that I'm "brainwashed by the patriarchy" or that I have "internalised misogyny". If you know of any, other than Sommers, who aren't SJWs and have an interesting point to make about gaming then please let me know. I'd be really interested to see what they write.
I think the problem is that the story begins with Zoe period. Zoe was the catalyst for this whether #GamerGate likes it or not, and they can say that she was just the "straw that broke the camel's back" and nothing more all day, but usually when a straw breaks a camel's back, the rest of the hay bale comes down with it. And yet, where is the infamous Dorito Pope of a few years back? The infamous example of everything that was wrong with gaming journalism? I'll tell you this: IGN isn't on the list of websites that people are trying to take down. Hell, the list is called "Operation Disrespectful Nod" for Christ's sake, a direct reference to Zoe and what her friend said to her.
The only time I've ever seen anyone of note in the GG movement mention IGN or Geoff Keighley is InternetAristocrat... at the end of his "White Castles and Ivory Towers" video where he says that Geoff looks GOOD by comparison.
IGN just didn't get mentioned in this particular debacle until now because they weren't as close to Quinn herself and the specific issues surrounding TFYC, Rebel Jam, Patreon etc. Milo is also releasing emails in chunks to keep the story alive longer but we're getting there. IGN contributors, journos and even an editor were on the GJPs list.
From the GameJournoPros list:
Alex Rubens - IGN, G4TV, PCWorld, Official Xbox Magazine, Polygon, @Gamer Magazine, Games Radar, Joystiq, Kotaku, Destructoid, Tech Hive, Game Informer
Brandon Justice - Ex Gamefan, IGN, SEGA, EA & EGM
Dan (Dan Stapleton) - IGN, PC Gamer
Jason Venter - Honest Gamers Editor in Chief, IGN, Gamespot, GamesRadar, Joystiq
Meghan - IGN
Mitch Dyer - Editor, IGN
Rob Zacny - PCGamesN, The Escapist, Polygon, IGN
Taylor Cocke - Web content coordinator at Riot Games/Lolesports, but widely written at IGN, Edge, and others.
If IGN has been doing more fucked up shit it will come out. I believe Milo is currently investigating Silverstring and another company. He's only one journo against many, many others and the mainstream media is busy with Emma Watson atm.
