PC Gamer and other Future Publications Accused of Taking Bribes for Review Scores?
A freelance writer, Rich Stanton, whom has done work for various publications, went on Twitter last night and in a drunken fit. Basically it explained about how Future Publishing has altered review scores and taken bribes from publishers for better review scores.
Notably, he says that Future Publishing (owners of PC Gamer, Edge, OXM, and numerous other online and physical publications) have been taking bribes for quite some time from publishers for better review scores.
Neogaf outlines some of the more choice selections from Stanton's impromptu Q&A session from last night.
Link-http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=495020
Then you get an update from Stanton himself on his blog. He basically semi apologizes and calls out the sites that reported his comments.
Link-http://bootofjustice.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-echo-chamber-and-feeding-the-animals/
Just goes to show I will never work in journalism and don't know If I pity the ones that do. What do all you think as this seems a controversial topic with different opinions?
A freelance writer, Rich Stanton, whom has done work for various publications, went on Twitter last night and in a drunken fit. Basically it explained about how Future Publishing has altered review scores and taken bribes from publishers for better review scores.
Notably, he says that Future Publishing (owners of PC Gamer, Edge, OXM, and numerous other online and physical publications) have been taking bribes for quite some time from publishers for better review scores.
Neogaf outlines some of the more choice selections from Stanton's impromptu Q&A session from last night.
Link-http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=495020
Then you get an update from Stanton himself on his blog. He basically semi apologizes and calls out the sites that reported his comments.
Did my motivations give people pause before reporting? The fact I’m a disgruntled ex-employee with a grudge, clearly taking down a bridge with several tonnes of dynamite and all guns blazing? Of course not! One of the most amazing things about this whole affair, which caught me totally off-guard, was that of all the outlets reporting on this, a single solitary one got in touch to try and check the veracity of what I’d said. Do you know who it was? Kotaku. Fucking Kotaku! I have criticised Kotaku in the past for their addiction to lady pictures and Bomberman cakes, but here they were the one place that actually thought it was worth trying to establish the truth of the matter beyond a nobody’s twitter feed.
Neogaf, of course, is a law unto itself, full of wiseass cynics and anonymous authority figures claiming to have insider knowledge of everything. Well, I certainly gave them what they wanted. A friend of mine made a good point about this:
“You’re not just poisoning Future’s well, I’m afraid. When people are given license to assume that every opinion is purchased, every editor is a liar or a pedophile, you’re tainting the ground water in its entirety.”
That made me think more than anything else. I don’t regret having a go at Future, because the behaviour of some of its employees towards me has been abominable, and I’ll be damned before I sit down like a good little freelancer and take it. But I do regret failing to make that distinction between the company and them – Future is not a singular entity, but in my anger I treated it as such. And you can’t depend on others to be able to parse those things when you haven’t.
Let me spell it out. Is Future bent? No. Have I seen individuals do bad things? Yes. And to be honest, I’ve just as often seen people TRY to do bad things, and get slapped down by management.
So draw your own conclusions. But don’t take one angry man’s twitterings as gospel, and don’t mistake score-settling as the truth about score-selling.
Link-http://bootofjustice.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-echo-chamber-and-feeding-the-animals/
Just goes to show I will never work in journalism and don't know If I pity the ones that do. What do all you think as this seems a controversial topic with different opinions?
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