Only for people who are gullible enough to believe that the mainstream media is an advocate of ANYTHING other than profit and power. But if you're a lefty or righty that believes that childhood fairytale, more power to you. Also, be sure to check under your bed every night to make sure no monsters are hiding there. You just might find some... and they will be stamped by a corporate sponsor.

Or "Made in China".

I'd reply in agreement but I forgot to install my Chinese font pack.

but i do have a monster living under my bed

He always pays his rent on time though.

Good deal. There's nothing worse than a corporate sponsor that won't pay the rent or do the dishes.

Not really sure where you're going with this. Are you scolding me for believing that any journalists ought to take a bit of pride in their work? In my defense I'll say that this is not uncommon where I'm from. Admittedly, it seems to become less common as time goes on, but there are still journalists here who do actual journalism, even in mainstream media.

We all need to believe in something. Personally, I like to read the bill of sale on the tag when I make a purchase.

Or refill the toilet paper.

Mainstream media is more corrupt than EA+Ubisoft+ world governments combined.
I say let them die off with their culture of lies.

so anyway, i used to be gg-neutral

events made me medium pro

that abc piece made me very pro

there i said it

So... apparently the ever-level-headed Brianna Wu has been attacking TotalBiscuit today over some offhand comment he made about toast... that was apparently transphobic, for some reason. I have no idea. She has blocked me on Twitter so I can't read any of her stuff (which is probably best for my sanity).

https://twitter.com/Totalbiscuit/status/558666438089904128

Also, I have just been made aware of Ian Miles Cheong, who appears to be a complete psychotic nutcase. Which, you know, is SUPER different than other vocal anti-GGers.

Just to check, you mean this comment?

Apparently.

I suppose I could see how a hyper-sensitive person might be offended by that. Although I think it's hilarious.

Someone care to explain the joke to a foreigner?

Eh, I see the joke he's trying to make about otherkin (which I can only tell based on subsequent tweets, TBH), but it isn't all that funny; then again, that's a matter of personal taste, which most humor tends to be. That said, the part where it focuses purely on someone getting prickly about their pronouns to the point of threatening murder is just as likely, if not more likely, to hearken to transgender people, as otherkin aren't (at least in my experience) as widely known as a 'thing'. Given that trans people already have to put up with more than their fair share of the proverbial shit sandwich over people actively refusing to acknowledge their identity, and that this could just as easily be seen as a joke at the expense of trans people over that exact thing, I can see people going beyond not finding it funny and actively getting angry. Still, I think that a more productive response would have been along the lines of an 'Um, you do realize how this looks, right?' to clarify.

tl;dr: Transphobic? Not on TB's part, from the what I can tell (then again, I have yet to find the surrounding 'context' of that tweet, so for all I know there are bits of 'hilarity' involving 'trannies' and 'shemales' in his feed). Funny? Not to me, but then again, with humor it's always a case of 'your mileage may vary'. Poorly constructed so that it's so ambiguous that even I at first thought it was taking the piss out of trans people over a real problem that they face in real life? Yeah, kind of.