Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Never-Ending Story: Cooper Clarifies

Cooper Lawrence has talked to MTV, now, and she sort of backs down but is still really irritating ("Expert Backs Down..." shouldn't be the title of an article about the fact that she wasn't an expert, but anyway). She stands by the University of Maryland research she cited that no one had ever heard of. You can't actually read the research without being someone or paying, though, so I still can't ascertain whether she was fair about it or not. Gamepolitics.com now has a poll asking if gamers should forgive Cooper now, and I'm still torn in a way. There's not a whole lot of material given in the MTV News report, but it doesn't sound as apologetic as I'd like it to be. I wouldn't keep "reviewing" her books or anything, but I seriously doubt, if it were actually possible, that a gamer apology would be appropriate as of yet.