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No shes a media whore and she got pwnd. I think its great when us gamers/nerds/whatever can fight back with the leveraging tool of the internet. People pick gamers because they think they are an easy target. But the video game industry is at a point now where when it gets pushed, it can push back, and people feel it.

right on Prophestus, a woman's scorn? Nothing in comparison to a gamer's wrath!

This apology doesnt fix everything but it is a start. We should accept it from Cooper Lawrence, but still want one from Fox.

At the end of her Fox interview she said, "Let me at em"

I guess we got to her first!

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you damn right!

Well don't stop now...hit Fox News: [email protected]

"the author was just trying to promote her book, and only knew the "facts" that Fox gave her."

You can say that but ignorance is not an excuse. I think the fact that she was willing to agree with whatever fox set her with for book promotion makes her a scumbag. She was willing to put another product down without any experience with it to push her book. That doesn't make her innocent. If you go on some one else word and don't look into an issue any further be prepared to deal with the Consequences. I hope her book fails and she realizes she shouldn't open her mouth with out looking into something first.

No, the author is more to blame because she took what someone else said as fact. She should not be stating opinions about a game that she had no prior knowledge of.

I know she screwed up by blasting the game with false facts. But she obviously didn't create the lies about the game. She is an author trying to promote a book. And the book, by the way, has nothing to do with videogames, violence, or sex.

Fox probably didn't have a segment to put her on that related to her book, so Fox put there on a segment about Mass Effect and gave her false facts. I'm sure that kind of thing happens all the time on these kind of shows. So yes, she screwed up, but she apologized, so let's grow up and move the fuck on in life.

So a half assed comment made to her by someone at fox is reason to say what she did about the game? don't be an idiot you sound like her when you make comments like this. She deserves the backlash she is getting, and she has only apologized because of pressure and the fact that her book sales will suffer. It did not come from the heart it came from her pocketbook!

Trekster, I think you need to watch the video again and see exactly what SHE said about THIS game specifically. The show host, who admitted to knowing nothing about the game, is the one making the false claims about Mass Effect.

But THIS woman isn't to blame though. Someone at Fox created the lies. Fox News is to blame.

Marrvia

She isn't innocent by any means, if she doesn't know ANYTHING about the matter at hand, why bother giving an opinion about it? why not just say "I don't know anything about such videogame, sorry"

If she is willing to give an opinion about something based on what SOMEONE else told her, doesn't matter if true or not, she should stand by her words/actions, just accept that she did wrong, but the thing is that this was done through national television....she wants to apologize? do it through national television then, and she take down Fox while at it.

She barely even talked about Mass Effect in particular. The host of the show as the one talking about the Full nudity and graphic sex in this game. Cooper Lawrence was talking mostly talking about research about violence and sex effecting young children, which was kind of off topic anyway. She obviously knows nothing about the game, only what people told her. So if she is guilty, she is guilty of believing lies that were told to her about the game. You think she is the first one in history to do that? And then she apologized for it.

I don't think this woman needs to be treated like Jack Thompson for be a little bit ignorant. She did apologize, and I am mature enough to forgive her for it.

And people with opinions like yours are the reason people call gamers whiny little nerds. Get over it. You have the game. No one is going to take it away from you. And I highly doubt sales will suffer. If anything they just created more hype for it.

And P.S. I doubt Fox News is going to offer an apology. I agree they should, but they won't. Because they don't care. And why should we? Even if Mass Effect did have full frontal nudity; they couldn't do a thing about it. So if you really want to "not rest" until you get an apology, then go for it. But I'd suggest letting it go, and getting back to your precious Mass Effect.