Drama, Drama, Drama in Video Game Land

Many gaming sites and other blogs are reporting over a possible controversy regarding the firing of GameSpot reviewer Jeff Gerstmann after he gave a poor review to a game that had very prominant advertisements all over the site. Here are a couple of places for some good takes on what's been going on:

Valleywag: Jeff Gerstmann - Valleywag seems to be where the story originates from, and this link takes you to all of their posts regarding Mr. Gerstmann.

Game Stooge: RIP, Journalistic Integrity - This editorial offers some balanced insight into some of the larger issues at work here. From the article:

The other problem is that writers are reporting rumors as fact, and visibly biased. It is “clear” that Gerstmann was fired due to a low review score given to a game with major advertising on the site. Why? According to most of these websites, correlation is causality. No other facts are needed, such as the fact that Gerstmann was fired two weeks later when the last of the major game releases had been released and reviewed – an obvious time to release an editor.

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