Jerry Lawton: Video Game, Film And Book Plans Cause Fury
ABOVE: Jerry Lawton has become a cult icon, despite writing nothing but crap
Update: Daily Star – Jerry Lawton – An Apology
A book on the crazed journalist is due out in weeks and film companies are lining up bids for the rights.
And last night gaming websites showed the cover of Grand Theft Jerry Lawton – a version of the XBox hit Grand Theft Auto.
It is named after the Daily Star journalist, Jerry Lawton, who invented a story about a fictional game being made about a serial killer, using a poorly made mock-up he found on the internet and quotes from the family of one of the killer’s victims.
Gaming website Nukezilla’s Editor in Chief, John Kershaw, 23, said: “I can’t believe someone wants to make money out of simply inventing facts and upsetting people
“It is sick – it’s shame money. The article is beyond belief.” Kershaw’s girlfriend Chelsea, 23, added: “Does the person writing the article know what they are talking about?”
Lawton defended his article saying he was “baffled by the fury of adult gamers.
“These are grown (?!?) men who sit around all day playing computer games with one another who’ve today chosen to enter the real world just long enough to complain about my story slamming a Raoul Moat version of Grand Theft Auto!” Adding “You would think I’d denied the Holocaust!!!”
A publishing source said several other journalists had “expressed amusement” about Lawton’s story.
The article in question was pulled off the Daily Star’s website and a full investigation is being conducted to discover if Lawton had written such a poor article involuntarily.
[Sources: Google cache of the article, Destructoid]
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I’m worried this guy is giving us Lawtons a bad name :(
Firstly, as we all know Jerry invented the printing press, so he can write whatever he wants to about these things called “video games”. And secondly, why are you insulting God’s gift to journalism? I mean seriously people. This man should get a second Pulitzer prize for his hard-hitting undercover expose of such nefarious tomfoolery! We should all be ashamed for calling into question his integrity. Whoever wrote this thread should offer their firstborn child to him as penance. And acknowledge his contribution to cheese.
Jerry, mentirosos y morbosos que se intentan alimentar del dolor de los demás inventando historias para ganarse algo de fama publicando un “reportaje” sucio y falso no tienen sitio en esta sociedad!!
Te deseo lo peor. Aunque tu solo te encargas de conseguirlo.
(From Spanish)