Editor’s Blog: Lost Humanity 18 Aftermath
First of all, I want to apologise to Eurogamer’s readers for not saying anything else about why I edited Rab Florence’s column last week until now. There are a bunch of reasons why I’ve not said anything. One is that removing paragraphs from Rab’s column is the most depressing thing I’ve had to do in five years of editing the site and I still haven’t gotten over it. Another is that the emotion of the moment was much too raw for useful analysis and introspection. And the last reason is that I hoped the column still spoke for itself.However, now that things have died down a little, there seem to be two main reactions and I want to address both of them.The first is that a lot of people want to know more about why I made the changes and issued an apology. The answer is that Lauren Wainwright threatened us with legal action and made it clear she would not back down, at which point we took legal advice and ultimately made the decision to remove the paragraphs. It was not a decision that I took lightly. One objection to this action that I’ve read online is that there was no libel. All I can really say is that the advice we received meant that removing the offending text and apologising to Lauren was the right course of action to take. We also considered the fact that the article wasn’t really about her but about all of us, and I felt that the edited version did not change Rab’s meaning.Read more…
