#GamerGate, Journalism, and Bombthreats

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I’m not sure how this afternoon session at SPJAirplay is going to be able to move forward. Not because of the 10 bomb several bomb (edit: apparently there’s been two bomb threats but the latest was actually called into the police.) threats they’ve had so far (if you haven’t been watching, they just evacuated the auditorium again (about 1138 PDT).
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#GamerGate: Avoid the SPJ and “Airplay”

I had high hopes for the upcoming (in August) discussion being arranged by the Society of Professional Journalists to hear both sides of GamerGate. I was actually naive enough to believe that finally, GamerGate supporters would receive an impartial hearing and dispel all of the hateful rhetoric that’s been written and spoken about what GamerGate is all about. I have to say I’m disappointed.

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