For those of you into comic books, longtime GamePolitics reader Brett Schenker has created the fan blog Graphic Policy.
The site's slogan sounds familiar, but we can't quite place it: Where Comic Books and Politics Meet...
Brett, a political consultant, does some work for the Entertainment Consumers Association.
FULL DISCLOSURE DEPT: The ECA is the parent company of GamePolitics.
Neo_DrKefka: https://archive.today/F14zZ https://archive.today/SxFas https://archive.today/1upoI https://archive.today/0hu7i https://archive.today/NsPUC https://archive.today/fLTQv https://archive.today/Wpz8S10/20/2014 - 11:21am
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Andrew Eisen: Neo_DrKefka - "Attacking"? Interesting choice of words. Also interesting that you quoted something that wasn't actually said. Leaving out a relevant link, are you?10/20/2014 - 11:04am
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quiknkold: ugh. I want to know why the hell Mozerella Sticks are 4 dollars at my works cafeteria...are they cooked in Truffle Oil?10/20/2014 - 10:41am
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Neo_DrKefka: Anti-Gamergate supporter Robert Caruso attacks female GamerGate supporter by also attacking another cause she support which is the situation happening in Syia “LET SYRIANS SUFFER” https://archive.today/F14zZ https://archive.today/Wpz8S10/20/2014 - 10:18am
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Neo_DrKefka: That is correct in an At-Will state you or the employer can part ways at any time. However Florida also has laws on the books about "Wrongful combinations against workers" http://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2012/448.04510/20/2014 - 10:07am
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james_fudge: he'd die if he couldn't talk about Wii U :)10/20/2014 - 9:16am
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Michael Chandra: By the way, I am not saying Andrew should stop talking about Wii-U. I find it quite nice. :)10/20/2014 - 8:53am
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Michael Chandra: 'How dare he ignore my wishes and my advice! I am his boss! I could have ordered him but I should be able to say it's advice rather than ordering him directly!'10/20/2014 - 8:52am
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Michael Chandra: If GP goes "EZK, do not talk about X publicly for a week, we're preparing a big article on it" and he still tweets about X, they'd have a legitimate reason to be pissed.10/20/2014 - 8:52am
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Michael Chandra: If GP tells Andrew "we'd kinda prefer it if you stopped talking about Wii-U for 1 week" and he'd tweet about it anyway, firing him for it would be idiotic.10/20/2014 - 8:51am
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Michael Chandra: Legal right, sure. But that doesn't make it any less pathetic of an excuse.10/20/2014 - 8:50am
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ZippyDSMlee: You mean right to fire states.10/20/2014 - 8:50am
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james_fudge: some states have "at will" employee laws10/20/2014 - 7:50am
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quiknkold: It says in the article that being in florida, you can get fired regardless if its a fireable offence10/20/2014 - 7:19am
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Michael Chandra: If your employee respectfully disagrees with your advice, that's not a fireable offense. If they ignore your order, THEN you have the right to be pissed.10/20/2014 - 6:49am
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Michael Chandra: I... Don't get one thing. If you do not want your employee to do X, why do you tell them it's advice or a wish? Give them a damn order.10/20/2014 - 6:48am
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james_fudge: A leak that had me worried about being swatted by Lizard Squad.10/20/2014 - 6:03am
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james_fudge: It should be noted that the author leaked the GJP group names online10/20/2014 - 6:03am
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MechaTama31: I mean, of the groups being bullied here, which of the two would you refer to collectively as "nerds"?10/19/2014 - 11:30pm
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MechaTama31: But that's the thing, it doesn't sound to me like he is advocating bullying, it sounds like he is accusing the SJWs of bullying the "nerds", who I can only assume refers to the GGers.10/19/2014 - 11:21pm
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Comments
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
Thanks Dennis for the plug. Really the site was created so I could get back into writing, which I haven't done in a long time, especially a blog.
The lack of comments are due to lack of people leaving comments. I only block the spam, I think there's some interesting one's from a piece on Wal-mart a while back.
But, again for checking the site out.
Brett Schenker
Online Advocacy Manager
the ECA
www.theeca.com
Brett Schenker
Online Advocacy Director
the ECA
www.theeca.com
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
Why the hell are we being told about this? Because he namechecked GP?
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I LIKE the fence. I get 2 groups to laugh at then.
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
Not too sure of Gp's reason, but I personally see a lot of parallells between the comics medium and what is happening to games. The moral panic that ensued over comics resulted in the comics code- which ruined the medium and relegated it to kids/teen level superhero stories watered down to the point of being nonsense. American comics are still recovering from this.
Videogames are facing many of the same battles today comics faced decades ago. The Comics Industry caved to the moral panic. The games industry might do the same if more people don't grow some balls...
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
yay, and he moderates all his comments before they're posted! That's awesome, cause comic book fans are always in agrement, and always see the other side of things.
and i'm sure he's gonna spend hours every day reading all the comments from all the blog posts ever made, too. so commenting on old posts wont become useless.
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
Moderation is off (I hope), never really meant it to be monitored in the first place. Every blog I work with I'm the advocate for no moderation. And, actually, I do read all the comments. Since those can be counted on one hand, it's been pretty easy.
Brett Schenker
Online Advocacy Manager
the ECA
www.theeca.com
Brett Schenker
Online Advocacy Director
the ECA
www.theeca.com
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
LOL, and as i look back, he's got 0 approved comments on every article EVER posted.
Better than that, back in january he had an article titled
Now Is The Time To Support Free Speech!
Epic Win!
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
Wouldn't just be better to combine all three media forms (TV/Movies, Books and Video Games), and save ourselves the slow news day?
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
/double agree.
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I LIKE the fence. I get 2 groups to laugh at then.
Re: Politics and Comic Books Collide at Graphic Policy Blog
/disagree