Fox News Reviewer immediately fired for early review

[Bodhesatva]

Kasz216 said:

Bodhesatva said:

Kasz216 said:

JaggedSac said:
I guarantee that if a site broke the review date that game companies sometimes set, there would be consequences.

Well they don't really set review dates the same way as movie companies.

Afterall Videogame companies say "You can't review the game untill 3 weeks after it's been released unless you give it an 80 or higher."

If a movie studio tried to put a star limit on movie reviews.... they just don't.  They'd get blasted.

 

 

 That's the producer side of things, and I agree that's also heavily manipulated.

Right now I'm discussing the consumer side, though. In film criticism, any attempts like these are viewed as hackery: Roger Friedman's name is now anathema in the industry, more or less. By comparison, we encourage game critics to engage in this sort of behavior. Give us the review a month before the game comes out: fight over exclusive reviews; feed us a constant stream of rumors and leaks that may or may not be authorized and may or may not have a reliable source.

 

True... but i mean it's slightly different isn't it?  The Early reviews are approved of rather then stolen...

because they're promised good reviews.

It's bothersome that people don't call out these people but at the same time... if some movie guy got to see a movie early adn wrote a review on it authorized i think people would be happy.

 

 

There's absolutely no way that would fly. Why do you think no film reviewer does this? Obviously, someone would already be doing this if 1) people wanted it and 2) it was considered professionally acceptable. Either the readers recognize that such behavior is corrupt, or professional standards actually exist in the film criticism industry that prevent critics from doing this in a non-binding manner. Which all of them actually follow.

I'd argue that it's likely because it's a mature industry, but whatever the reason, film review readers don't seem to want this. I think it's understood that the competition for "early reviews!" creates favoritism and bias which clouds the quality of the review process, but perhaps I'm giving my fellow readers too much credit. I don't think I am, however.