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Salon: We don't need no stinking writers

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Just when I start loving Salon and their take on game journalism they spring a rancid piece of crap like their Year in Games wrap-up on me. I understand that everyone s really busy with the holidays, but if you can t do a story right don t do it at all.
Instead Salon half-assed their year-end look at games by having a bunch of industry insiders post their thoughts on the year. The thing reads like a message board, a very boring message board.
This was done, according to the Salon editors, because writer Wagner James Au was too busy to get around to writing something. I can t believe Salon seriously thinks it s OK to tell its readers that their writers don t have time for them.
Funny enough, this collection of other peoples quotes with literally no outside input still kicks off with Au s byline. Apparently he had enough time to take credit for the story he didn t write.

The Year in Games [Salon, as written by other people]

12:06 AM on Fri Dec 24 2004
By Brian Crecente
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