No clue, but he inflated review scores at the magazine he worked for, to a publisher in order to gain favor from them in the future which obviously worked.
I would say that these shills if they are attacking it is for their own good but stuff like inflating review scores is for the good of the company they are promoting. Remember also, that Shane was hand picked by the publisher to be flown around the world to a posh company retreat (his own words) and write about MGS4. EGM did not pick him to go but Konami did because of his previous shilling for PS3 exclusives.
lol, Are you seriously trying to undermine them by quantifying their amount of "corruption"?
They were all extremely biased and were rewarded with jobs in the things they were biased for. It's as simple as that.
Theres the case you just mentioned, where he got rewarded with a job at Sony.
Then, when you work for a gaming website where you have to deal with all sorts of games and say something like "the Halo franchise is probably the only franchise in gaming that I care about", you get rewarded with a Job at Bungie.
When you continuously trash on Sonys casual games you get rewarded with a job at MS promoting Rare Kinect games.
When you give a launch game (PDZ) a 10/10 completely outside of all other reviews you get a job at MS.
+ the other 2 dudes I don't fully remember. It's the sad state of the gaming "journalists" we have. But 1Up was nothing but a sham job used as transition/booster to something better. The amount of people that got jobs that way is really telling.