Michael Koretzky, journalist and current organizer of the Society of Professional Journalists Region 3 annual meet in Miami, Florida, has been regularly keeping consumers, gamers and denizens of the GamerGate hashtag abreast of the events that have unfolded leading up to the August 15th panel discussion called “AirPlay”.

What’s the discussion about? Well, it’s an all day event covering the origins, the ethical breaches and the history surrounding #GamerGate. In fact, the simple act of someone from the SPJ willing to give selected panel representatives for #GamerGate some airtime to speak actually managed to make the news at a major online outlet.

Buzzfeed writer Joseph Bernstein recently did an article about the AirPlay event, writing…

“[…] the Society of Professional Journalists will host a GamerGate debate. Yes, that GamerGate, the one that pitted so-called “social justice warriors” against “true gamers” in an endless debate about the ownership of game culture, the one that produced dozens of rape and death threats and doxxes.”

Citations needed about those “dozens of rape and death threats and doxxes”. One of the doxxing attempts were proven to have originated from people who are against #GamerGate.

One of the rape threat scenarios toward Brianna Wu came from a random Twitter user that had zero affiliation with #GamerGate and didn’t even use the hashtag — mostly since anyone who did attempt to use the hashtag for threats or harassment were usually quickly reported by the #GamerGate Harassment Patrol — and the same applied to the random egg account who sent threats to Anita Sarkeesian.

In fact, according to a peer reviewed report requisitioned by WAM, less than 0.66% of the alleged reports for harassment had any association at all to do with those on the GamerGate Autoblocker list.

Of course, Bernstein has no interest in the truth or publishing facts and his outlet has no standards for fact checking, hence their continued proliferation of outrage culture and purposefully using their media platform for misinformation.

Nevertheless, AirPlay is gaining traction. The latest update occurred earlier today labeled “Updating an update”. It covers some of the fallout and emotional controversies between some of the panelists and Michael Koretzky, the event organizer.

A lot of drama happened; one of the panelists – journalist Oliver Campbell – opted out of participating in SPJ AirPlay and there were plenty of heated exchanges taking place within the fast moving space of the worst conversation platform in the history of social media, Twitter.

Nevertheless, Koretzky takes the opportunity to make it known that AirPlay will still happen and that all the bad blood will just have to boil up and wait until August 15th to finally boil over. He finishes the “Update for the update” with the following…

“Obnoxious GamerGate critics: Stop emailing me, “We told you so.” What happened yesterday doesn’t make you any less reactionary. You still have more in common with the worst elements of GamerGate than you do the best elements of anti-GamerGate. “In other words, I’ve met reasonable people on both sides, and assholes on both sides. After three months of diving into this controversy, the assholes are all starting to look alike. It doesn’t matter which side they’re on.”

While Campbell opted out of the panel discussion over differences of opinions between the committee and Koretzky, the #GamerGate panel still has Milo Yiannopoulos, Cathy Young, Christina Hoff Sommers, Allum Bokhari and Mark Ceb set to bring a lot of facts and truth bombs to the journalist convention in Miami, Florida next month.

In this case, all of the game journalists, professional journalists, outrage bloggers and social critics who have either participated in ethical violations, defended ethical violations or have spoken out against consumers attempting to straighten up the media space, have all chosen not to appear at the SPJ AirPlay event in August.

Every single one of the individuals writing from a platform claiming that #GamerGate is a harassment campaign either have no facts to back up their lies, or they just don’t have the gumption to stand by those lies in a live setting.

Nevertheless, AirPlay will be live-streamed and media journalists from around the country will be there in attendance to finally get a firsthand experience of what #GamerGate is really about. To win the event, the only thing pro-ethics consumers, journalists and advocates need to do is show up and present the facts.

[Disclosure: I helped the committee formed by Michael Koretzky to select panelists for the SPJ AirPlay event.]