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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Today the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences announced that Entertainment Software Association founder Doug Lowenstein will be the third recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Yesterday, we posted a letter from former ESA boss Doug Lowenstein chastising the gaming press for giving everyone’s favourite soon-to-be-former-lawyer Jack Thompson, claiming that we “treated him as if he was a credible, fair minded critic” (we did?) and overcovered him (and Crecente admitted that on that point, it’s probably true – at times). Well, they’ve shot back at GamePolitics, succinctly calling Lowenstein’s assertions ‘bull.’ You can’t combat a bully by sticking your head in the sand, notes GP:
I can’t imagine there is much love lost between the former president of the Entertainment Software Association and soon to be former attorney Jack Thompson. While Thompson often publicly vilified Doug Lowenstein, once even calling him the Goebbels of the industry, Lowenstein always declined to respond.
When news of Thompson’s upcoming disbarment hit Kotaku, Lowenstein (who now works outside the industry) took the time to write me an email asking that I and other game journalists take this moment not to celebrate but to reflect on how culpable we were in helping create Thompson.
That letter for your consideration after the jump. Personally, I think that many (including Kotaku) over covered Thompson at times. But I also think it would be a disservice to completely ignore Thompson’s legal proceedings which, at times, did find a home in the mainstream media. We even tried, at times, to apply an investigative slant to his coverage.
Ignoring a problem, I think, does not usually make it go away.
