Sacred Symbols+, #415 | Change Course, or Die Trying (Patreon)

Please welcome LSM mainstay and Washington Post games reporter Gene Park to Sacred+. So, here's the rub: Days ago, WaPo published an op-ed by its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, of Amazon and Blue Origin fame. His essay came on the back of a deeply-consequential political decision he made on behalf of his paper, but the piece -- entitled "The Hard Truth: Americans Don't Trust the News Media" -- has potential ramifications far beyond that. It's in that space that we staged today's episode of Sacred+. Bezos talks a great deal about deep-seated bias, a lack of trust, and a other issues that plague not only mainstream publications we consult in our everyday lives, but the more niche flavor of entertainment 'journalism' too, and like George Lucas might observe, it seemed to me (Colin) like everything he was saying rhymed. Their problems are actually ours, too. We love talking about games media on our show because understanding how to best communicate to audiences is how our medium continues to push forward. But we also deserve a far better crop of people who are less ideologically captured, and more interested in delivering a dose of reality instead. This conversation isn't about partisan politics at all. It's actually about quite the opposite: Real issues that should interest us regardless of where we may sit ideologically. Ultimately, it shouldn't really matter, and maybe that's the greatest point of all.