This is shameful. Remember a couple of years ago when Sony Pictures made up the totally imaginary film critic “David Manning of the Ridgefield Press” to put outrageously positive quotes for their films in the commercials. On really bad films too… like The Animal with Rob Schneider or Knight’s Tale. That was a horrible example of lying to the public. And yet everyone just seemed to forget about it and let it slide under the rug.
So now a settlement has been reached in a class action case in which Sony will pay $5 to everyone who saw any of the movies “David Manning” gave a quote for and can produce their ticket stub up to $1.5 million dollars. Honestly I don’t think that’s enough. I want to know why Sony wasn’t charged criminally with fraud and public mistrust. Not that I think Sony should be shut down for it… but really they should have been slapped with a heavy fine. Am I over-reacting?
