Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) founder Hal Halpin, a monthly contributor to GameDaily BIZ, has followed up on the Fox News controversy by sending the network a letter on behalf of the ECA, urging Fox to correct its blatantly false portrayal of Mass Effect.
According to the ECA-owned GamePolitics, the letter, which was issued on Monday afternoon to Fox News' Teri Van Horn, producer of the "Live Desk" segment, reads as follows:
On behalf of the [ECA], the national non-profit organization representing American video game consumers, I urge you to correct and repudiate the misstatements leveled by Fox News' Live Desk regarding the story and character interactions in Mass Effect.
Your show's reporting was irresponsible and incorrect. Your own "expert" Cooper Lawrence has subsequently disclaimed her misstatements... In the future, we ask that you book real gamer and industry experts on your show...ECA's members are disturbed by your news organization's apparent disregard of the truth in this instance. We represent a diverse group that cuts across all ages, with the weightiest portion in the coveted 18 - 45 age group, and with women accounting for 38% of gamers. Over the past week, our members have mobilized to speak out and set the record straight on Mass Effect, and we ask the same of you.
Fox, in the meantime, has made no official apology or correction, but GamePolitics also points out that "Live Desk" host Martha MacCallum recently made mention of the Mass Effect controversy and quoted Cooper Lawrence's admission to The New York Times. So essentially Fox is letting Lawrence take the fall for something most believe they asked her to do/say. Classy.






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