The Consumer Electronics Association (producers of the Consumer Electronics Show) has responded to Cnet’s Rafe Needleman on his coverage of Gizmodo’s CES pranks here.
We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion…
What Gizmodo’s staffer did at CES is inexcusuable. What remains to be seen is whether or not his superiors at Gawker Media had foreknowledge of his intent or aided him at CES. I suspect that Gawker Media will pay a price for the prank, and for its extraordinary lapse in judgement in publicizing it on the web.—Jim Forbes 01/13/2008
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