I think that in general, GAF hates blogs because all they do is take news from other places, add some comments, maybe some biased spin, sensationalize it, and pretend it's a news story. And then people fall for it, and it snowballs. That's not the job of a news organization. Those kinds of antics are more suited to a message board like GAF. Oh wait, even GAF antics count as news in the world of blogs.
The only blogs GAF likes are the small ones that keep to themselves. Kotaku is an exception because one of the things they threw at a wall to see if it stuck turned out to be true once, and they had the balls to stand behind it when threatened, instead of retracting it and handing us more random lies that they hoped might turn out to be the truth.
After a search, I'm not sure if
this incident was what caused Joystick [deliberate typo] to get banned, or if they were already banned.