In essence, it’s entirely their right to fire someone who they employed, just as it is the right of thousands upon thousands of people to smash them into bankruptcy for it. THAT’s the way the world works.

Yes, I am upset.

Shellito, I take it you regard people who don’t have English as a first language as inferior. That’s just as sick and stupid as this boycott.

When one of my employees cause damage to my company, his ass will be fired.

End of story, that’s how the world works.

Wow. I didn’t know it was possible to rape the English language that many times in such a short, disjointed, incoherent and idiotic blurb. Tell you what, sport; master the concepts of conjugation, contractions and the run on, then come back and see if you can construct something that resembles more of the English language than someone with the IQ of a bag of wet hair raping a dictionary with the fervor of a speed freak peaking on a 7 day binge.

But since we’re on the topic, let’s get your head adjusted, buttercup. Whether it be the BBC, CNN, NBC or even Gamespot, they each serve a function- to provide information and/or opinion. Until recently, it was understood that since those were the core values and mission of said organizations that sales (of advertising space) had a firewall between themselves and those who reported and/or gave opinion.

Now with corporations gobbling up news organizations like you ramrodding your absolutely dreadful English, the culture has changed and all of a sudden, news organizations are subservient to the same values and business models that used to be reserved for the entertainment industry.

Since you’re probably still trying to figure out what I meant when I called you, “sport”, let me fast forward and explain to you, and to Kalahan as well, what this means.

C:Net did not fire Gerstmann because he was a bad editor, a bad worker or any other reason you may try to convince yourself of. But because corporations like C:Net have folded news and opinions into the same departments as entertainment. By doing so, corporations suppress innovation, free thought and in the case of Gamespot, honest opinion.

And in case you still want to believe Gerstmann was a bad worker, writer and that there are elves and fairies and girls that actually want to talk to wankers like Marmite, then these things called “facts” are lost on you. For those of you who understand the implications of this, be sure to seek out sources where the opinions are shielded from advertisers wrath- especially when they deliver a turd and expect reviewers to polish it.

Gamespot was known for years to give low review scores. Now all of a sudden there was this rumor and everyone is pissing on Gamespot’s integrity.

Jeff got fired because he was sloppy in his work not because he gave a bad review. I agree that it was a really bad decision from Cnet but that no reason to declare these rumors as fact and declare a boycott.

That game sucks ass on many different levels it’s not even funny… I also totally agree with your statement.

Gamespotgate 2007…. shame on you.

I say just stop visiting Gamespot all together. Once they see that they’re page views are significantly lower than usual, that should be enough of a hint. Many advertisers then won’t be getting that exposure, and so will pull their ad campaigns if they see that there is not enough of an impact being generated from Gamespot.