Take-Two sues CTA for GTA ad pulls
Category: Industry, Posted: 05/07/2008 at 07:49PM CDT by Chris Abiuso, Content Contributor
Some of you may remember the issue involving GTAIV advertisements in Chicago buses, and how CTA ultimately pulled them due to a Fox report. Well, Take-Two is now taking some action against the unwarranted hatred of the GTA franchise. They are now filing a lawsuit against CTA.
The issue initially came up a few weeks ago, when Fox broadcasted one of its usual one-sided, anti-game stories about how the CTA was allowing advertisements for the "unapologetically violent" GTAIV video game. The story stirred up so much controversy that, in the end, the CTA pulled the ads to gain back the support they lost when viewers were swayed in favor of Fox.
Now Take-Two is angry. Angry enough, in fact, to file a lawsuit. They claim that the CTA broke an ad agreement amounting to $300,000, violated free speech, and pulled the ads without reason. The pulling of these ads may have also started a chain reaction; Miami-Dade Transit, for example, pulled their GTAIV soon after CTA pulled theirs. Take-Two wants restitution and the reapplication of the ads on CTA buses and train platforms.
Finally, Take-Two is fighting back! After taking years of heat from anti-game activists and one sided news broadcasters such as Fox, they are finally standing up for themselves, But in essence, perhaps they may very well be standing up for the whole game industry.
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Finally. I was getting quite tired of these dirtbags getting away with their idiocy...
go take two!!
Why do people still think Fox is unbiased?
What's FOX? :P
Nice one take2. sux2bfox
If Take Two wanted to impress me they would go after the Fox network as well as these city governments.
I just hope cta doesn't lose any money for this, they already had to close a bunch of routes due to lack of state funding. :^(
Fox News needs to die a horrible death, or at least admit that their "fair and balanced" coverage literally spits in the eye of "fair and balanced," burns the very idea alive, and then pisses on its grave.
Yes, I hate Fox News with a passion.
It makes me glad we have things like BBC news here. The only bad news program here is possibly GMTV (good morning television) But thye just sugar coat everything. Not very serious. BBC news i the way to go.
If there talking about all the middle eastern nonsense then Newsround is the way to go. Haha, thats the news for kids, but shockingly, there not that bad. The real news, but simplfied.
ugh, you should watch scotland today, its the worst shite ive ever seen (well maybe not as bad as fox). It's not that they're biased, they're just really f*ckin stupid.