Clarification: XboxIreland.com article - we used facts, we did not infer or imply

Games Toaster takes complaints seriously, so seriously we are publishing this clarification in the same way we publish all of our content. This post is a clarification, not a correction. At this point, we see no reason to edit the article in question in any way.

On November 28, 2005, we published an article titled ‘XboxIreland.com launches, backed by publishers’, we have received anonymous complaints, apparently but not certainly, from the one person vie our comments system.

The article deals with the facts as we have established. In this case, all such facts are available in the public domain (ie on websites, including Xbox Ireland). 

In the article, we do not give our feelings of support or otherwise for the site, there is one exception to this, after the use of the word ‘Irish’ was wrongly used as ‘irish’ we inserted ‘(sic)’, this is commonly used with in print media to display a grievance distasteful use of the written English language. Besides this we do not infer or imply any thoughts on how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ the site in question may be.

One comment stated, “By linking their staff member to Microsoft's marketing company as if it means that they are biased”, we did not link their ‘staff member’ to a marketing company which works for Microsoft, we merely publicised the fact that such a link is a realty, we said nothing of bias. We did not infer or imply any ethically complicity of somebody working on an ‘Irish Xbox community site’ and working directly or indirectly for the Xbox maker. To infer (to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have – Cambridge), is something the complaint did, not us, we just provided what we know as the complete information, which we could not find on Xbox Ireland.

Another comment stated, “This quote: "Games Toaster has identified least one person listed as a ‘staff writer’ [of XboxIreland.com] as being an employ of an Irish marketing company who works for Xbox manufacture Microsoft. The site is billed as an ‘Irish Xbox community site’."… Yas make it sound as if yas have identified him from a criminal line-up! ” To the best of our knowledge, to the term “identified” is not solely generally associated with a “criminal line-up”, or any other “criminal” activity. We do not believe many of our readers will confuse our use of English in this way. 

In this case, the complaints were published publicly in our comments system, if you have a complaint and want to issue it confidential you can email or write to us (see the contact page), if you wish we will only publicly deal with the nature or the complaint without quoting the whole complaint. As always you can also post using our comments system with or without entering a name or email address.

Again, this post is a clarification, not a correction; as such, we see no reason to edit the article in question about XboxIreland.com in any way.

Comments

Hey, this is Cian O'Mahony, the Editor of XboxIreland.com. Thanksfor the correction, although both posts make us sound like criminals and is harldy good publicity for us.

Thanks all the same,
Cian.
cian@xboxireland.com.

[Cian O'Mahony]

Hey, this is Cian O'Mahony, the Editor of XboxIreland.com. Thanksfor the correction, although both posts make us sound like criminals and is harldy good publicity for us.

Thanks all the same,
Cian.
cian@xboxireland.com.

That's the point was being made originally.

[Cian Ginty]

Cian O'Mahony has emailed us saying everything is now ok and that he doesn’t want to challenge the content of the Games Toaster article. I have left it open to him to write a right of reply article if he wishes.

Its just like war of the worlds!

Would yas stopping attacking each other and just be friends!