The whole issue of GameSpot firing Jeff Gertsmann over a Kane & Lynch review has barely blown over, and now former reviewer Frank Provo criticizes the parent company, CNet, for firing Gertsmann for all the wrong reasons, and says that CNet “…intends to soften the site’s tone and push for higher scores to make advertisers happy”.

This is certainly not good news for CNet, especially when it comes from a reviewer who worked for GameSpot for almost 8 years. GameSpot’s credibility is seriously hurt at this point, I doubt anyone will take the site’s reviews seriously any longer.

Provo says it himself in a follow up comment, better than anyone else could have:

The GameSpot staff are NOT corrupt. GameSpot itself is NOT the problem. CNet is. CNet’s management is. The problem lies with the puppet masters. Unfortunately, those masters have RUINED GameSpot’s credibility and reputation… a reputation built up for more than a decade.