"Apparently money talks..."
I have never written a blog for Gamespot before, but I figure now is the right time. Something has recently happened in the world of Journalism; something bad. I am referring to the firing of Jeff Gerstmann from Gamespot.com.
For those of you that don't know, Jeff Gerstmann has been a long time editor for Gamespot and had, for the most part, seemingly unbiased reviews.
Speculation has recently been circulating around the internet that he was given the pink slip after giving Eidos' Kane and Lynch a poor score of 6.0. Eidos had invested a lot of advertising dollars into promoting their flagship title for the Christmas season, however, upon hearing about the mediocre review, sources have said that Eidos wanted to pull the plug on the whole ad deal.
Second-hand sources report that Gerstmann would not change his score. Shortly after this, Gerstmann was fired, his written review was altered and his video review was removed from Gamespot.com altogether.
This sickens me. I plan to one day become an aspiring Journalist and always thought it would be perfect if I could write for some sort of video game publication. What now though? What ever happened to Journalistic integrity? What happened to the freedom of speech? Apparently, money talks. In the long run, I hope the truth will spread throughout the entire gamer community on this whole situation.
I'm a great believer of karma and I think its wheels have already set into motion.
(P.S. I can definitely say I am a much bigger fan of IGN.COM now. LoL)
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