I absolutely and definitely abhor any kind of attempts to impeach the journalistic integrity. I know there are many many magazines who have thrown their integrity out the window years ago, and those magazines I tend to disregard. I don't know what is the scene in other countries, but I think us Finns are fortunate in that the biggest gaming magazine here, Pelit, has always kept journalistic integrity close to heart. For a long time, they even refused to preview games and would only release a review after having completed the game. Nowadays they have previews, so they've "compromised" a bit, but quite often you can read either the editor or one of their longest standing reviewers talk about the issue of journalistic integrity in gaming press.
Now, back to the other issue at hand: it's not really shocking that Konami is trying to influence the press, that's what all companies do. However, setting up conditions under which you can't tell the truth is just plain wrong, and Konami should be shunned for it.
