The David Pakman Show

The David Pakman Show is a radio, television and internet show that has been running since 2005, hosted by David Pakman. It has hosted a number of GamerGate related episodes and interviews.

Attempted Interviews
Stephen Totilo, of Kotaku, declined to appear on his show.

On the 31st of October, Pakman attempted to get an interview with Zoe Quinn who declined because he was giving unbiased coverage to "a hate group that has ruined my life," and that he was "publicly pressuring" her. She later said: "ps: if you want to ask a target of a massive harassment campaign who has safety concerns to do a thing, do it off twitter."

Later Pakman posted, "Just because I don't know all twitter etiquette in terms of replies & dot replies, calling me a bully for offering people time seems unfair."

Reception
Anti-GamerGate people have been critical that Pakman had been balanced and given interviews to both sides of the issue, and on the 31st of October he commented: "we've been equally fair to both sides, but I am actively trying to get more anti voices on. theyre not saying yes"

On the 1st of November, the official David Pakman twitter said, "Overnight, received many emails saying if I don't apologize for neutrality on #gamergate, I'm guilty of leading a hate mob against women."

He has also defended himself from accusations of victim blaming.

Stance on GamerGate
On the 10th of November, David Pakman released a video expanding on his opinion of GamerGate, with a note that his opinion could change as it goes on, he felt that issues of bigotry (such as homophobia) are problems in the video game industry and that people are hiding behind the "meme" of journalistic ethics to slut-shame and make personal attacks, but it's not the only thing going on. He denounced the harassment going on from both sides. He said there are issues when it comes to journalistic ethics (such as collusion), but it's not the only place issues of invalid ethics within journalism as a whole.

To the people who truly care about journalistic ethics, he said "is this the number one issue? When I think of all of the issues that I cover, is ethics in video game reviews the number one issue? No, it's not." He listed issues he felt were more important than journalistic ethics in video games, including the corporate media being corrupt and their advertisers influencing them, and referred to the want to fix either journalistic corruption or bigotry in video games (due to fictional portrayals) as "unhinged focus" when there are bigger things happening, and that some people were taking things "too seriously".