The journalism elitists are actually going to give me a brain aneurism. I do not give a flying fuck if they have a journalism degree and can write long ass articles about things that can be summed up in 1 or 2 sentences. Your job is to report information, thats it. That's all your job is. Theres nothing so grandiose about it. It doesn't matter whether people like james_ff are "real journalists" or not, but what does matter is the fact that he's spending time reporting and providing new information to the masses.
All I've seen the "real journalists" do is trying to gatekeep and bring down someone providing information other people are interested in and it's actually annoying. I understand theres skill and study required to become a journalists that is taught in a journalism degree like interview skills, content curation and investigation skills. But we're talking about valorant journalists (TMosura and ds_santos) and i see none of that in them. The only journnalism "skill" I've seen them showcase is write stretched out articles and regurgitating information. I'm not saying the work they do is entirely useless, but it's not really that amazing is it?
Credit where credit is due tho, george geddes on the other hand is not a bad reporter, he has connections and information other people might not have access to. However he acts like a dick ass sodomite online and is honestly really hard to like. People like james_ff are trying to gather information through the best means they can but geddes is sitting on his high horse giggling at "the basement dwelling gremlins" cause he thinks hes allat.
"But hes just looking at stream vods anybody can do that 🤓"
Well at least hes taken his time to do something no other person has bothered to do.
He's keeping the community interested in the valorant offseason while the "real" journalists are banding together to mock him cause his popularity hurt their ego and "damaged the journalism integrity" or smething.
TLDR: Val journalists are not allat and people like james_ff's efforts to at least try get information to the community should not be mocked by people having a superiority complex
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