Gerstmann-gate: Blackout Monday update

by Kyle Orland @ on Dec 3rd 2007 12:28PM

Big wheel keep on turning. Gerstmann-gate keep on burning.

If you missed it over the weekend, see our Saturday and Sunday updates, as well as coverage of surrounding rumors and Gerstmann's exclusive comments to Joystiq.
Many members of the gaming community are participating in a loosely organized "Blackout Monday" boycott of Gamespot today.
An unrelated, real-world protest is being planned for Dec. 8 - 10 in front of the CNET offices.
GamePolitics: "If the highly detailed rumors surrounding Jeff Gerstmann's firing are true, then the people who run GameSpot have, by their own hand, utterly trashed a great media brand."
The story hasn't made a big splash in mainstream print or broadcast outlets yet, but it is beginning to get a little play on mainstream web sites. See USA Today, BBC Tech (link at bottom right) the San Jose Mercury News, The Guardian, the Dallas Morning News and Norway's third-largest newspaper, Dagbladet (sketchy machine translation).
GameFAQs briefly changed their front page poll over the weekend to ask users what would happen next in the controversy. Over 25% of respondents predicted that "Gamespot begins its slow decent [sic]."
Virtual Fools has compiled an impressive list of links to comments from current and former Gamespot staffers.