Mmh, allow me to be a little doubtful about the "SIEE didn't know about State of Play content" bit.
The last State of Play was even prerecorded in
French the day it was aired, and most likely in other european languages too.
The EU PlayStation Blog had also usual blog posts following the State of Play, so that does not make much sense to me.
When VGC write "SIEE was not aware", who are we talking exactly ? I'm pretty sure not
everyone in any company is supposed to be informed about things under NDA, so it kinda depends who you're asking.