Does Anyone else feel Games get a bum rap from mainstream media?

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Eidos Life President Livingstone speaks out against mainstream media's game

Per Joystiq: During the Westminster eForum this week, Eidos head (and Life President) Ian Livingstone had some less than favorable things to say about the mainstream media's coverage of the gaming industry. "People just couldn't accept that games are a great learning tool," Livingstone told the crowd of "industry representatives and their advisors, interest groups, local authorities, the voluntary sector and academia, along with members of the reporting press," reports MCV. He asked for mainstream news outlets to focus less on violence in games and to instead look at "the poor skills the UK has to make games."

In his eyes, the mainstream media's overwhelming focus on violence in games -- and consistent ignoring of the economically beneficial side of the game industry -- certainly isn't helping to bring the development tax breaks he's been pushing in the UK for quite some time now. To help change minds, we suggest that Mr. Livingstone get in touch with the two people who have been most able to clearly convey our feelings on the violent video game debate -- Penn and Teller, of course!

News still reports on big movies being released, has weekly box office results.  You dont see that kind of coverage for games,  I would love to see 

Katie Couric announce sales numbers for Mass effect 2.  I think games dont have the stigma they use to have but are still not conisdered any were equal to movies.

Last point VGA awards on spike, golden globes, Oscars and Emmys all on Major networks.