GomTV released a edited version of Jinro's interview. They trimmed out 29 seconds from its original interview video, and that 29 seconds includes Jinro's statement about soundproofing issue.
I personally thought the censorship is wrong, so I posted a thread about this interview censoring issue on GSL Korean official site, and still got no answer from staffs. GomTV shouldn't did this. GomTV must release original interview video and put a explanation about that. Am I the only one who cares about this?
UPDATE 1 13:59 23 Jan 2011 KST I got a reply from GSL staff about this issue. I had to post two thread to get the response. Translation: We acknowledged our fault, but we thought that the well known incident to be cited again and again is not good, and there are some people diminishing the match with the incident which did not practically effected to the result. Sorry.
They had to have known people would notice and make noise about it... doesn't make sense why they would do that, it's just going to create more knowledge about it.. not less.
Thats actually quite appalling. I don't know what purpose this serves except to draw even more attention to Jinros comments. When will companies learn you can't really contain stuff like this by covering it up, you need to address it and move on.
Artosis: "Lets talk about that last game..." Jinro:"To be honest... *people in the backround are warping to different locations in zero time* Jinro: "...i canceled my marine accidently and it helped me!"
Gom did adress the issue after the incident here is the Link to the thread. As to the censorship part yeah i don't really see the point get it fixed and move on.
hahahahahaha ahhh censorship, guess even gomtv isn't infallible. Very DogSPA-esque indeed. They should really know better, by censoring what the issue was, it will draw attention anyway and people will find out. Just makes them look bad cause they censor it >_>
They've already acknowledged the issue in an official statement. Sure, censoring his interview is kind of shady, but if they've acknowledged they have a problem and address it, then it's not really an issue. I wouldn't make too big of a deal about it until they don't fix anything. If they do, then don't worry about it.
I guess from a business point of view, they don't want it to affect their brand. I know people feel that it is shady that they are covering it up but I'm assuming from their own view, it has already been addressed and doesn't want the other people who may not have noticed/watched this interview before to dig through it and have to explain themselves again.
What kind of PR department does GOMTV have anyway? Did they seriously expect people not to notice this after so many heard it live and people made a big fuss about it in public forums? Or are they truly stupid enough to think we'll just let it lie because it's been already been addressed. Why would they jump into another quicksand just after getting out of one? They seriously need to fire some people and get more competent staff in.
I feel it really is a non-issue now that can be easily skewed into a scandal which the pro-scene really does not want (War3 map fixing/SC match fixing). Covering up is shady, but smart and understandable. Also it prevents future discussion about it since the interview is more accessible than the press release - it prevents discussions years later where people are like OMG DID YOU SEE THIS OLD INTERVIEW WHERE JINRO CHEATED!
It was addressed, it has been fixed, and Gom really wants it under the rug otherwise something very little might blow up to be something annoyingly big in the future.
I think this is a huge deal. Censoring the players interviews is unbelievably wrong. I can't believe GOM would be dumb and shady enough to do this. This will only bring more attention to what happened.
I'm not normally for handling things in such ways but in this case it makes sense. GOM heard it, publicly addressed it, and has moved on from it. There's no real sense in that interview sitting around claiming the opposite.
Yeah it's censorship but if the problems been solved there no reason to have an interview laying about saying there is a problem.
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