{"id":468,"date":"2006-10-18T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/18\/gamings-top-50-journalists\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T14:18:33","slug":"gamings-top-50-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/18\/gamings-top-50-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming&#8217;s Top 50 Journalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgmwatch.com\">VGMWatch<\/a>&#8216;s Kyle Orland has compiled a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=4027&#038;Itemid=2\">gaming&#8217;s top 50 journalists for Next Gen<\/a>. And, naturally, there is stuff wrong with the list. Any list that reaches 50 will inevitably lead to hair-splitting and other disagreements. So here are a few of mine.<\/p>\n<p>1) The Penny Arcade guys get a single entry, but Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb &#8211; best known for being a team &#8211; are separated.<br \/>\n2) It&#8217;s mostly editors-in-chief, even of the <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/13\/gamedailys-top-ten-rts-games\/\">woefully edited Gamedaily<\/a>. This makes sense since editors are the gatekeepers, for good or for ill. But it does make the list more of a &#8220;who&#8217;s who&#8221; than an evaluation of importance. Unless importance means having an office.<br \/>\n3) Some obvious names were left off. Where&#8217;s Tom Chick? Andrew Bub aka Gamerdad? Even the annoying Wagner James Au is important enough to make a list like this. (Hey, the article isn&#8217;t &#8220;best&#8221;.) All three are significant opinion shapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VGMWatch&#8216;s Kyle Orland has compiled a list of gaming&#8217;s top 50 journalists for Next Gen. And, naturally, there is stuff wrong with the list. Any list that reaches 50 will inevitably lead to hair-splitting and other disagreements. So here are a few of mine. 1) The Penny Arcade guys get a single entry, but Adam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-7y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}