You need to get yourself off that high horse and reread what i just wrote. No one is "silencing" them - they're still free to write whatever the hell they want.

BUT

A journalist's job is to report on stories ethically.

Kotaku failed in the ethics department, hard, they're still failing(look at Grayson getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar again). Consumers do not trust them and now not even developers trust them.

The key point in journalism is your reader base trusting you. That is the whole goddamn point of an ethics policy, the reason for avoiding conflicts of interest, the reason for not making it seem like you're reporting on something you benefit from.

If there's no trust, then you're not a journalist - you're just a bullshit writer.

So go sell that high-horse bullshit somewhere else. I want journalists i can trust, that can do their jobs as they're supposed to. All the rest of the unethical parasites can go plough themselves.

EDIT:

Here, i'll give you an example. You know Liana K, right? And how she's in various controversial GG-related discussions frequently. When there was a real shitstorm going on between her and FemFreq, people asked her why she wasn't reporting about the slander coming towards her from FemFreq supporters. Know what she said? "I can't report on a story that i'm part of."

Know why she said it? Because she's a trained, professional journalist that knows her shit. It's the very reason why people respect her, even though they disagree on some of her opinions.