Late to the party here. Not sure if Matt Lees is still following this thread (typically when they say they aren't, they usually are), but I just had this bit to say:
Many of his detractors on this board agree with the sentiment of his argument, but they disagree with his methodology because they think it's sensationalist. Matt, think on this for a second. Lots of people who are attacking you are coming from a place of fear. The people who respond to you with ad hominems and the tired "it's just video games" refrain are becoming more and more ubiquitous. In a lot of ways, these people are unreasonable to begin with. In even more ways, it's intellectual dishonesty (I think Net.Wrecker or someone else used this term, which I think is very accurate) like yours which enables them. They may not be able to form coherent sentences or rebuttals (or, they might just choose not to), but they can sense weakness, and they can see that your alleged reasoning is flimsy as all hell. What does it say to these people when you have to resort to half-truths and distortion of something that you admittedly haven't even touched? How are you convincing anyone of anything other than the people who were set in their minds to hate this game? How is that fair to the creators, and the medium itself, you're covering?
So, to reiterate, GAF hates a lot of things, but one thing they can't be faulted for is their hatred of intellectual dishonesty, and especially when that's in conjunction with people twisting the narrative to fit their argument. And through all of this distortion of accusations leveled at you, you somehow manage to sling yourself to the moral high road while expressly choosing not to answer other GAFfer's well-reasoned and respectful responses to you.
My suggestion to you is this: if you want to entertain people, then entertain them. If you want to inform people, then inform them. Part of the reason games journalism has, as you put it, "lost its way" is because the people who've tasked themselves to perform this job do a piss-poor job of it because of this self-imposed schizophrenia. Are you the gatekeepers of cool, arbiters of taste, or the guidestones of morality? You can't be all of them. That's not what journalists do. I'd argue that games journalism has never had a way, but really fucked itself when game writers and journalists started to insert themselves into their stories, like you have.
The next time, before you embark on your next chest-thumping, back-patting campaign of soapboxing, I think you should first take a look at the work of critics like Jenn Frank or Leigh Alexander. I have a hard time agreeing with them sometimes (this is true especially with Leigh), but I will not deny the fact that they are great at what they do. Leigh Alexander, in particular, has made more inflammatory, direct remarks towards the gaming populace than you have and yet, she doesn't attract this level of vitriol that you have welcomed with this video.
Why? Because there is no engineering of facts or misrepresentation on their part, at least not on the scale that you have perpetrated with your highly uninformative video.
Whenever they write something, they make us think. Unlike you, they're not trying to do the thinking for us and then getting offended when we say, "don't do that."
And when they're encouraging us to think, they appeal to the better angels of our nature. Unlike you, they're not appealing to us through the implicit hope that we recognize the better angels of their nature.
They're trying to encourage, not enforce or shame, change into the equation. Unlike you, they don't do any of this because they actually understand the stakes here and how crucial of a juncture these issues have reached in gaming culture.
Again, Matt, intellectual dishonesty will get you nowhere. Except for earning more detractors on GAF, unless that was your intent to begin with. Your passion does not preclude scrutiny. Your tunnel-vision demagoguery helps no one but you and your ego. If my demanding that game journalists actually do their goddamn jobs makes me your enemy, then I'm fucking proud to wear that badge.