Responsibilty in Media 02

http://kotaku.com/5145182/the-secret-language-of-world-of-warcraft

So, I'm honestly not sure which of the two i should comment on, the kotaku post (Kotaku being a hardcore gamer blog) or the ladies news report.  Honestly? Their both biased as hell.

Lets start with the NBC report.  First off, this isn't even news.  The lady is reporting on World of Warcraft speech (WoW) which, I'm pretty damn sure is just slang, not news.  News is like...Black President now elected, or bombs dropped on American City, Thousands dying, but the news today is gamers have a "Secret Society" where they have their own "Secret Language".  Load of crap, really, but lets move beside that point.

This article manages to skim over a couple of minor points as to what specific words mean, and what their significance is to the culture, but the piece seems to half heartedly educate where it could cover good points.  The point of the news presentation isn't news to begin with either.  It seems almost like a curious highschool girls giggle fest over an outsiders culture.  "ohh, they say kek instead of lol, ohmigawd thats so weird hahaha".  Smirth would wag his index finger.  Bad reporter, no cookie.

Moving on, we then have the opposing piece, the one written by Kotaku.  He tries to sound reasonable, but the article also skims the surface.  He makes the same points i do.  The article is not informitive, its not strong, and its shallow.  But the blog poster comments on precisley what the wow player was saying, translating the WoW speak.  I feel like he's adding flame to the fire just by translating and re-writing what the man has said.

Really, WoW speak is a way for the anti-social to put up more walls and barriers.  As a gamer, I find WoW speak to be horrid.  Whenever i'm at a dinner table and someone brings up WoW, everyone their who plays breaks into a conversation about the latest path, scrambling the conversation up with this language.  The report shouldn't be on the translation of the language, but about the community and culture, the diversity of it, and what the language does to break up average conversations.

Maybe im just too hopeful, maybe I'm just bitter of the pieces of my time that have been destroyed by the bull-crap of WoW speak.  Regardless, thiers something lost in a conversation every time someone pulls up WoW.  Its just a downer, really.