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Wrote nineteen articles about Disney Infinity, and namedropped it in at least eight more across two years, without disclosing his friendship with John Vignocchi, Disney Infinity’s exective producer and current vice president of Disney Interactive.
Covered games by Harmonix in at least nine occasions without disclosing his relationship with Harmonix PR Nick Chester — who was not just the Editor-in-Chief of Destructoid while Sarkar was employed there and the person who hired him in the first place, but remained on friendly terms with Sarkar, frequently hanging out together with him — in violation of Polygon's ethics policy.
Wrote about fellow journalist Leigh Alexander without disclosing their
admitted friendship. He also wrote two times about Sunset, which Alexander
was involved in through
her consulting company Agency for Games.
In order to publish his article about the launch of the Xbox One as fast as possible, he originally published completely wrong information — the article being treated as a developing story despite all the information being available since the start.
GameJournoPros membership isn’t an impropriety by itself. Read why DeepFreeze finds it notable.
This journalist’s career means they might be subject to slight asymmetric scrutiny.
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