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Daily Star Makes Hilarious Cock-Up


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http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/07/mock-star-game.html

 

Have a read of that, it's just ridiculous.

 

Update - the newspaper has apologised & details are here:

 

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/07/we-made-no-attempt-to-check-accuracy-of.html

 

It's amazing how most journalists are so eager to lay into videogames, and multiple times their irrational judgements get published without proper research.

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Parents blame videogames yet buy 18s for their children. So really they never have an argument that these games are influencing children.

 

And that's insane that the Daily Star could ever consider that legit. Oh wait, it's the Daily Star...

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I know newspapers such as the Star are trash...

 

But to not even contact Rockstar...?

 

Also, thinking that the mock-up box-art was real on the basis of... it being on the internet?

 

It's weird that The Daily Star have any money left to run their business, I'm sure they've sent millions of pounds worth of cheques to international lotteries they've won via e-mail.

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I don't think this is hilarious its somewhat worrying that people will read this and believe it to be fact. Daily Star apologising and retracting the story doesn't really help as people may have already read or heard about the initial story and made their mind up about the issue without even being aware that its been debunked as untrue...or could event think well theres no smoke without fire!

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