Gamespot issues short comment on Gerstmann firing (joystiq.com)

[8th lutz]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/30/gamespot...rstmann-firing/

 

In the wake of the rumors surrounding Jeff Gerstmann's suspicious removal as editorial director of Gamespot, Gamespot owner CNET has issued a short, official comment on the situation. "GameSpot takes its editorial integrity extremely seriously," the statement reads. "For over a decade, Gamespot and the many members of its editorial team have produced thousands of unbiased reviews that have been a valuable resource for the gaming community. At CNET Networks, we stand behind the editorial content that our teams produce on a daily basis."

 

As for Gerstmann specifically, CNET repeated their assertion that "it is CNET Networks' policy not to comment on the status of its employees, current of former."

[Gregory DG]

Well that was a whole lotta nothing.

[Albert]

That's a big bowl of nothing.

 

..Al

[Albert]

LOL

[PressureCooker2600]

Whatta' buncha stonewalling shitheads!!!!

 

WTF!?!?! They basically didn't say jackshit, like Al and Gregory noted.

[+Psionic]

Why'd you start another thread just for this?

[Jess Ragan]

Oh, that was something, all right! In Michigan, we call it a "lie."

[A Sprite]

"For over a decade, Gamespot and the many members of its editorial team have produced thousands of unbiased reviews that have been a valuable resource for the gaming community.

 

"You owe us. Remember that."

 

At CNET Networks, we stand behind the editorial content that our teams produce on a daily basis.

 

"Was Gerstmann a team player? It's not just about one man."

 

"it is CNET Networks' policy not to comment on the status of its employees, current of former."

 

"We take the 5th."

[Gregory DG]

Here's GameSpot's latest statement. Again, they fail to comment exactly why the guy was "released." People aren't going to buy that it didn't have anything to do with the bad review/publisher ad until they do.

[moycon]

Hopefully their comments were made because they lost a lot of business over this...

That crap nothing of a comment seems to amount to...

 

"Hey fellas we're losing money here and we have to pull some official comment out of our ass to appease the piss ants, I don't care what it is because it really doesn't matter, they are so frickin stupid we can feed them anything and they will eat it up"

 

Hopefully they will lose more business.

[bretthorror]

You guys wouldn't believe it, according to GS posters, the controversy is over. They believe everything in the article. Stupid people can't decipher between reality and clever wording.

[A Sprite]

You guys wouldn't believe it, according to GS posters, the controversy is over. They believe everything in the article. Stupid people can't decipher between reality and clever wording.

 

(The stakes are so high, in fact, that Eidos, whose Kane & Lynch has been at the center of the Gerstmann-C|Net controversy, has apparently gone one step beyond even Sony Pictures and its fake movie reviewer of several years back: according to Kotaku, the U.K. publisher is now resorting to inventing five-star review scores and attributing them to actual outlets. The offending faux reviews have since been pulled; nevertheless, this type of brazenly fraudulent act is another sign of the contempt that publishers have for the enthusiast press, to say nothing of the consumer--or the folks at Kane & Lynch developer IO Interactive for that matter, who, no matter what we think of their game, are being tarnished by their publisher's desperate tactics.)

 

-Newsweek

[PressureCooker2600]

Like I said before....I feel bad for IO Interactive.

 

They make some of my favorite games ever and they're being dragged in the dirt by Eidos.