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totalwar23 on 23 January 2008
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stof said:
Sqrl said:
stof said:
yeah. That's pretty much Fox news for you. I'm actually surprised they didn't bring on Jack Thompson.

So next time VGC screws up on software sales ala CoD4 I guess its cool for folks to just say "Thats pretty much VGC for you"? Lets get serious. Out of all of the news outletts I get news from Fox easily has the best and most thorough coverage. I disagree with a lot of the slanted crap their anchors and reporters say but its just as bad as what I hear on CNN, BBC, or MSNBC and the like, the only difference is that its slanted the other way.

If you don't like the story then just say so, making this about Fox is just a copout for dealing with the issue. Rather than discussing the topic you're just blaming the good'ole safe thing to blame on the internet. And frankly I'm getting tired of the lemming approach to politics that people seem so content with. Lets hear what you have to say about the issue!

 

@topic,

First of all, there were really only two people who were off base imo. The psychology chick who basically decided she was only going to accept the studies that say what she wants them to say (and there are studies for both cases), and the chick who thought the game should be "AO".

The rest of these folks were doing exactly what a lot of people on this forum have said they should do...and that is keep this stuff out of the hands of their children. If you have kids in the house you probably shouldn't have this game where they can have access to it, and thats just good parenting. As long as we are going to use the ESRB it doesn't make sense to get bent out of shape when parents actually follow the guideline. The only reason this game garnered national attention was the sex scene which really this is the first major release to have interactive sexual scenes, so it was bound to get some coverage.

 

Basically my position is this: If they are avoiding the game because they have kids then thats good parenting. But if they want to condemn the game because it has sex then they need to pull their head out of their ass and realize that its a part of life and hiding from it isn't going to change anything.

Just remember that while to us it seems like they are completely without the facts here, to them we are completely missing the underlying point. Its a fundamental difference in viewpoints really. But...I still think the screwed up the story.

 

PS - I still lub you stof~


The hell? What makes you think I'm basing it all off this article? Fox News doesn't have a shred of credibility to their name. You know why I said "I'm suprised they didn't bring on Jack Thompson"? Because the day of the Virginia tech school shooting, they had Jach Thompson on as a "School Shooting Expert" And while he tiraded against video games stating that that was the most likely cause, not a single person thought to ask if there was any evidence the guy ever played videogames.

Fox News is the most biased, sensationalistic, yellow journalism predisposed, popularist propagandist tool on the air.

John Gibson, Bill O'reily, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter shouldn't be allowed within 200 feet of a microphone let alone be given prominence. And it's even corrupted other stations, as CNN has let Lou Dobbs off his leash in an attempt to compete.

There really is no way to defend that joke of a station. This ME story is just a small, lesser example of their lunacy.

PS - I still lub you Sqrl... sort of.

Well, to be fair, MSNBC did also bring in JT except he was questioned more rigorously by Chris Matthews.

I don't like Fox News generally because they host people like O'reilley who seems to be sending out his workers to camera ambush executives from rival News Networks.