The horrors of Hot coffee continues

[Double_Blade]

Although Hot Coffee scandal is over, but look out, the horrors of Hot Coffee had been conjured up by the news.

Although this is old news, I would love to share it with you all.

Salt Lake City TV News Chokes on Hot Coffee Story

KUTV-2 News in Salt Lake City might have won an award for its Hot Coffee coverage - if it ran at this time last year.

The station's consumer reporter, Bill Gephardt, did a story yesterday on the FTC's recent ruling in the Hot Coffee investigation.

So far, so good, except Gephardt's report makes it sound like Hot Coffee is happening now, instead of last summer. Check out these lines from Gephardt's story, and note the continual use of the present and future (but never past) tenses.

News anchor Mark Koelbel starts the story on its downhill slide when he intros Gephardt with, "Bill Gephardt is here and he says there is a loophole in a kid's game that could actually allow players to see... porn?"

Gephardt follows up with:

"The game is Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. The Federal Trade Commission says the game has a tricky back door area... With a click of the code-word 'Hot Coffee' players can view nudity and play sex games. The Feds say ads and packaging for Grand Theft Auto are misleading..."

"Game-makers Take Two and Rockstar have agreed to make a new version of the game that really is 'M'. That will cost them twenty million dollars to fix this..."

Nice, Bill. Except all of that stuff happened - and was fixed - last July.

We're sure Gephardt does a fine job with those stories about barbecue grill recalls and wedding photo scams, but he certainly fell into a time warp with this one. And, yes, GP does get frustrated with the mainstream media's tenuous grasp on what games are all about. Is it that obvious?

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

What a feckin joke this fiasco has been.

 

[Reaktor4]

"The game is Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. The Federal Trade Commission says the game has a tricky back door area... With a click of the code-word 'Hot Coffee' players can view nudity and play sex games. The Feds say ads and packaging for Grand Theft Auto are misleading..."

I think this 'report' is misleading.

 

[VirusType2]

I think this 'report' is misleading.

Exactly. It should be a ****ing crime to falsely report things, to get more sales of your magazine or whatever. I mean, HE should be fined $22 million dollars for embellishing, and tarnishing sales of the game. When children's parents read that garbage they are going to be "wWHwhwhwhwHWAAAT?" click a code word and they can play porn? You and I both know that is 'a bit' of an exageration.

GET THE **** OUT OF HERE WITH THIS BULLSHIT Bill Gephardt and Jack Thompson. Anything for a buck right? You guys are so full of shit and play dirty. The truth is bad enough. Do they really need to exaggerate it all out of proportion?

They have been served justice - a warning of a huge fine. Thats it, it's over. Case closed. You can't be tried again for the same crime once the decision is final.


Bill Gephardt and Jack Thompson = douche-bag liars who embellish the facts like fear tactics to sell their lies. Fine these guys some money for damaging the reputation to Take-Two / Rockstar. At least to shut them the **** up.

 

[Kamikazie]

It's Utah, what do you expect?

 

[Raziaar]

The funny thing people don't seem to realize... the same kids who would spend time trying to unlock hot coffee, are the same kids that would be reading their dad's penthouse and playboys, and looking for porn online.

 

[PvtRyan]

Haha, KUTV xD

From Dutch to English, that's C*NTV.

 

[Double_Blade]

Exactly. It should be a ****ing crime to falsely report things, to get more sales of your magazine or whatever. I mean, HE should be fined $22 million dollars for embellishing, and tarnishing sales of the game. When children's parents read that garbage they are going to be "wWHwhwhwhwHWAAAT?" click a code word and they can play porn? You and I both know that is 'a bit' of an exageration.

GET THE **** OUT OF HERE WITH THIS BULLSHIT Bill Gephardt and Jack Thompson. Anything for a buck right? You guys are so full of shit and play dirty. The truth is bad enough. Do they really need to exaggerate it all out of proportion?

They have been served justice - a warning of a huge fine. Thats it, it's over. Case closed. You can't be tried again for the same crime once the decision is final.


Bill Gephardt and Jack Thompson = douche-bag liars who embellish the facts like fear tactics to sell their lies. Fine these guys some money for damaging the reputation to Take-Two / Rockstar. At least to shut them the **** up.

I agree... I find Jack's comments pretty stupid. And Jack isn't a true christian at all, he worships Hitler and Spitzer.

Man, a person with a well-conditioned brain won't even go and worship a bad person like Hitler.