#Gamergate ?

I keep reading different stories about gamergate and I am still a bit confused. What I've collected is that an ex got mad at a girlfriend who broke up with him and they are both in the gaming community. After threats and people being mean anonymously, a talk of ethics was brought into this and now people say ethics was the main solution they were trying to bring to the table.

Ethics is a battle that will never be won or lost. Ethics can change a persons way of thinking and we can dub "true ethics" every year. but not live by it and still call ourselves ethical with people to back us up. In my opinion, If the gamers want light on poor journalism in the gaming community, they need to fix the problem with these angry people attacking this girl.

The attacks on the girl did bring light to the situation, but now it is the main situation when that wasn't the intention. Fixing the problem and saying that these death threats are wrong and need to be stopped is the first step to getting to the point of the poor journalism. The girl adds the entertainment aspect of this story which is morally wrong, but it might have been necessary to get the public involved.  

A True News Community

I have discovered http://wkunews.wordpress.com/ through another classmates blog and clicked around. My first guess was that WKU's news websites would be full of events that happened on campus and awards and football game announcements. I was right. What I was wrong about was the importance of these articles to the community.

As I searched deeper, there was a tab marked "IN THE NEWS". Some of the articles about WKU were used by bigger publications such as Daily News and Fox News. If these producers are using our stories, I think we should have some of their stories on our website too.

Many students don't watch the news, but will talk about news happening on campus. We'll get snipbites of information about worldwide news and piece the puzzle together the best we can. I think if we can find a way to put these worldwide news articles in a way that is easier for college students to read and understand without falling asleep or under-prioritizing onto the WKU news website, our community would be better educated. Off campus gets our news easy, now on campus needs their news easy.