Don't have time for a proper post, so i'll just paste this article, sorry!
Mass Effect 'expert' recants
January 28, 2008 1:43 PM
Cooper Lawrence, the author, presenter and pop psychologist who took part in Fox News' now legendary report on Mass Effect, has told the New York Times that she regrets the comments she made during the segment. At the time she criticised the game for its sexual objectification of women - despite never having played it, or seen footage. From the article:
"I recognize that I misspoke... I really regret saying that, and now that I've seen the game and seen the sex scenes it's kind of a joke. Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it's like pornography. But it's not like pornography. I've seen episodes of 'Lost' that are more sexually explicit."
Will this stop 24-hour news channels press ganging publicity-hungry 'pundits' into studio debates that they're in no way qualified to contribute to? Is the pope a traffic-accident gawking scientologist?
Meanwhile Fox and EA seem to be in loggerheads over where to go next. Apparently, EA says it's sent a letter of complaint to Fox but the network hasn't replied, Fox says it has invited EA onto the same show to put across its side of the Mass Effect story, but hasn't received a response. You'd think these hulking bastions of the modern media industry could manage to establish somekind of successful communication channel.
I can't help but think, wow, if only every story on Fox News was so passionately deconstructed by its viewers.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2008/01/28/mass_effect_expert_recants.html
She never should have made a comment without playing the game but at least she apologised
