Game Journalism at the moment is honestly little more than "ERMAGAWD! SEXISM!" and "This game is 10/10, because Activision forwarded millions of dollars to our paypal account". It's been like that for a long time now, as much as the dishonesty in it's system bugs me I care less about that than I do about the developers making the games.

No games, no gaming community. No gaming community, no game journalist. Game Journalists need the Developers to survive, they got nothing to be a Journalist about if there's no games to keep a gamer community going.

And Video Games are at the moment fighting an uphill battle to be seen as an artform. To be taken as seriously as movies and literature, and we need more games to do that. Games that take risks at pissing off the public, that delve into serious topics such as say the Holocaust (which MANY movies do) and handle it in a serious way. But people are scared to do that, because game journalism is right there waiting to pounce. To tear the developers apart, ruin their lives, end their careers and damage the game industry all for a few clicks on an article named "VIDEO GAMES HATE JEWISH PEOPLE!".

I mean in movies what do we care more about? The movies themselves or those article reviews you find on rotten tomatoes?
It's not a matter of not liking freedom of speech, I'm all for freedom of speech.
It's a matter of being able to create the very thing you have the freedom to talk about in the first place.