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Time Magazine’s horrible journalism

Submitted by on September 4, 2007 – 1:52 pm6 Comments

timehalo.jpgIf you pick up this month’s issue of Time (pictured), prepare to be outraged. The cover story features Halo, but the journalist, Lev Grossman, did absolutely no research, and… well, writes an infuriating piece. He calls gamers “lonely and alienated,” and assumes no one reading Time could even fathom what Halo is about. He calls video games an “unhealthy amusement for children,” and says that Halo is “ghetto.” Oh, and the company behind Halo is “The Bungies,” according to him. Even more nonsensical is the fact that the cover blurb calls Halo “the thinking gamer’s shoot-em-up.” This is ridiculously bad journalism… I hope he gets disciplined for his utter lack of research and defamation of gamers everywhere.

Read more of the infuriating quotes at the BBPS.

  • Sifer2400

    wow talk about fuked up lol i bet you he’s a sony fan boy hahaha =D

  • Jordan Lund
  • Brent

    When I’m feeling lonely and alienated I’ve also preferred porn to videogames.

  • jeff

    Try reading his book “Codex”…it’s awful.

  • Mac

    I’m actually curious if you even read the article, because you are horribly misquoting it. First quote, he actually says “There is an invisible subculture in America. Those who belong to it love it with a lonely, alienated, unironic passion. Those who don’t belong to it walk right by, uncaring, just as people walk right by that unmarked building in downtown Kirkland”. He doesn’t call gamers “lonely and alienated”, he says there passion is alienated. Though changing, is still true. Second, he says most people could not approximate the halo story line, which is true for two reasons. one, there are 300 million people in the U.S. and only 8 million copies of halo 2 were sold, notice the big number difference? second, not everybody who owns halo plays it for storyline, there are a lot of multiplayer gamers who live for competition, not storyline. I would say that he was correct in his assumption. On the your next “quote”, that he calls video games an “unhealthy amusement for children”, but what he actually said is “The Bungies bring a grinding, jeweler’s meticulousness to what most people consider an unhealthy amusement for children”. Which sadly is still true. That was a horrible quotation. Next quote, He does not say Halo is a “ghetto”, he uses ghetto as a metaphor for the gaming industry, saying “There’s an opportunity… for Halo to break out of the ghetto and become a mainstream, mass-market, multimedia entertainment property”. And finally, he is more intelligent then calling bungie “the bungies”, he uses that to refer to bungie’s employees. he uses bungie correctly saying “which houses a company called Bungie”. he refers to the employees saying “Not that the Bungies care… They sell enough units and make enough money”.

    I recommend everyone read the article themselves before deciding you agree with anyone. The article wasn’t very entertaining, but at least he didn’t lie. The only part of the article that i disagreed with was him saying “They don’t need to legitimize Halo by associating it with other, more respectable media.” ouch, more “respectable” media, right…

  • http://www.consolecolors.com Kat

    Yes I did read the article, before I posted this, and I still feel that way.