TSSZ Leader Honored for Not Jumping on Sonic Stadium Downtime

While the Emmy Award winning Channel 4 News Team is bringing you the news today, the founder of this website is being honored by the rest of the community via a proclamation for showing restraint when it mattered.
We’re talking, of course, about the extended downtime The Sonic Stadium endured in recent weeks.  Aside from its message board, many visitors were greeted by a blank white page informing them of the hiccups.  And that’s if they could load the front page at all.
Under normal circumstances, this would have led to at least half a dozen stories on this website, TSS webmaster Dreadknux drowning in E-Mail requests for comment, and at least 16 uses of a lens flare.  To the surprise and relief of all community onlookers, however, none of that happened for the entire duration of the website’s downtime.
“Yeah, it was an easy target,” Tristan Oliver said when he sat down with this anchorman.  “But I figured, as long as no data was lost, I’ll let them do what they need to do.  I remember two years ago when they nearly lost everything.  From that, even I don’t like to kick people when they’re down anymore.”
It was that kind of renewed spirit that implored TSS’s Dreadknux to declare today JOURNALISM Day.
“Tristan’s inaction, his nonchalant attitude toward it all was, dare I say, responsible,” Dreadknux said.  “I thought I lost all hope after his  skirmish with Shadzter, but now, with some supervision, some counseling…maybe, just maybe, he can be rehabilitated as a journalist, and as a person.”
Along with the public proclamation, Dreadknux told Tristan his website has regained the privilege of being mentioned at the annual Summer of Sonic fan convention in London, breaking a nearly two year long blacklist.  Dreadknux even arranged to have Sega send a letter to him which, for the first time in nearly 18 months, did not tell Tristan to go fuck himself.
“I am what I am,” Tristan said.  “When I said I was driving the website in a new direction, I meant it.  We still have to be fair and we still have to be tough when necessary, but after doing this for so long, I have finally realized what is and what is not news.”
Dreadknux will continue to mentor and coach Tristan on his road to recovery, and will offer lessons on proper gaming journalism etiquette, including the art of ass kissing, partying with potential interviewees, and never biting the hand that feeds.  With improvement, Dreadknux may even consider adding TSSZ to TSS’s community Twitter feed, and reinstatement of his community forum privileges on a probationary basis is being deliberated.  But he knows this could be a long process.
“It is a step in the right direction, but we have to keep everything in perspective; it is just that,” Dreadknux said.  “For all I know, something gets banned at Sonic Retro or Sonic Nexus misses another SAGE, and then the whole thing goes to Hell.  I want to keep Tristan on the right track.”