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Still Battling the Toronto Sun

The newspaper that asked "Did Need for Speed Kill?" drew the ire of Kotaku reader Skitzo and he updated a message board with where things have gone since the email exchange. The short story is that the Editor-in-Chief was less than sympathetic to Skitzo's complaints, but he did get the EIC to admit that the cover was done the way it was (see image for idiocy) simply to sell newspapers.

My Battle with the Toronto Sun [Assembler Games]
One Reader's Battle with the Toronto Sun

11:40 AM on Thu Feb 2 2006
By lsmith
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  • adamcole at 11:27 AM on 02/02/06
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    I like the advertisement at the bottom selling cars. "The excitement starts here."

  • parasite_evil at 02:59 PM on 02/02/06
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    That story is total B.S. They logic is so stupid. Oh NFS was found in the car and they played it at SOME date in the past, therefore it must be NFS that cause them to race. That's ridiculus. That's like saying "Oh that serial killer was once a baby at some so it was because he's a baby that lead him to killing people." What ever happened to good old classic "kids being stupid"? When did stupidity not become the cause of death? They should stop putting the scapegoating and figure out why teenagers are dumb. I'd like to see a scientific report on that.

  • Coweh at 03:27 PM on 02/02/06
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    This makes me really mad. People have been pinning blame on different types of media for forever, but to so blatantly do it for publicity is just shameful. Another thing that really gets to me is that they are asking, "Did NFS Kill?" just because a copy of the game was in the car. Next time a drunk driver kills himself/herself, go through the car and see how many references to alcohol there are. For all we know, he was returning it for a friend, started speeding, and died. These newspapers are just greedy, opinionated popularity whores. I've lost faith in most corporate media, and this just reaffirms it.

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