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Newswire Misreports Gamer's Suicide

Posted by Zonk on from the sad-but-not-surprising dept.

Asriel86 writes "Pulling from the AFP newswire, Yahoo, CNN, and others have been reporting about how a gamer broadcast his own suicide on a gaming forum via a webcam, and that members of the forum continued to ridicule the gamer while he killed himself. Gaming Horizon has just learned that this is completely untrue. The newswire reporter failed to check the facts, and in turn painted this simple gaming forum into cruel monsters. The forum (hosted at metalgearsolid.org) has been taken offline at the request of Government agencies following these news reports."

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  1. Give AFP some feedback by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the article:

    "If you'd like to contact the AFP newswire about their story, you can do so via this form and selecting the "Contact news department" option for the first drop-down."

  2. From the form by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the form:By filling out and submitting this form you authorize AFP and its agents and/or representatives to contact you (via e-mail, phone, and/or mail) about its products and related services, including announcements of special promotions.

    spamspamspamspamspam!

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  3. more info by webwench_72 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kuja's posting on gamefaqs, with responders' posts:
    http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?bo ard=2000075&topic=25527152&page=0

    One of the metalgearsolid.org's admins tells his story here:
    http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1777029&highlight=metalgearsolidorg

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