Why does Fox News have problems with Flower?

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Well the Fox interviewer was a pandering idiot. He just asked patsy questions of the guy so he could say his stuff. There was not real calling him to task on any of his opinions.

I mean in the same breath they are both criticising the game designers, who freedom of speech laws allows them to push whatever agenda they like, except you know maybe paedophilia and bestiality I guess, and then totally letting the parents off the hook by saying "Well the parents have no idea about the content of the games they are letting their kids play."

Well Shit! I didn't know game designers were meant to take over the role of parents by censoring themselves into banality so that parents can remain oblivious and uninvolved in what their kids plug themselves into on the internets and consoles. This radio jock who happens to be a parent is saying he wants to absolve himself of parental responsibility and force content control into the hands of game developers.

And his parting shot is that games are boring? OK, well if they are boring then the kids ain't gonna play them so what the hell is he complaining about?

And Fox is to blame for allowing that twisted message to be sent out to its millions of viewers, and giving air time to any hypocritical wing nut with a strong opinion.

And for the record, I'm a pinko socialist greeny who supports nuclear energy as part of our global energy solution. So I agree that some enviro-games are rather off base in the specifics of the message their pushing. But I don't give a crap because, y'know, I talk to my kids about the important issues and don't leave it up to games to educate my kids about the major social challenges of our time. I make it my business to know what entertainments my kids are watching/listening to/playing. And if they get warped ideas about the world from games I straighten them out with rational argumentation not bitchin' and moanin' about the evils of ideologially driven game developers.

Betcha this guy will be on the radio the next day preachin' the virtues of the free market and for govt to get out of the face of business.