Daily Mail Voices Concern Over "Ultra-Violent" Modern Warfare 3

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JDKJ

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Why are all these posters focusing on the Daily Mail? They've only reported what Mediawatch UK had to say. Unless they completely fabricated the statements of Mediawatch UK, then what the Daily Mail has to say isn't the real issue. Rather, what Mediawatch UK has to say is the real issue.
 

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Hmmmm, I always thought the Daily Mail advocated violence towards foreigners.
But anyway, screw the Daily Mail and the press, the vast majority of what they report is either lies, bullshit or pointlessness.
 

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America has watched New York get obliterated in countless ways since 9/11. Everything from the blacklight virus to 9/11 itself has been shown over and over again in film, games and books. And people are complaining because this "kind of" looks like 7/7? Great, now we're going to look like a bunch of overly sensitive pricks.
 

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ohai! Controversy! Wait a minute.... no I'm still not interested.
Also is it just me or, despite all being cinematic events, were the visuals really flat and disappointing? Not that I care... If I want another coaster I can get one for far less than AU$100 thanks Call of Doodie. See what I did there? teehee

Rabble rabble violence rabble pretty well sums it up. Well at least us Australians got rid of that Atkinson fellow.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
By the way, I thought people would like to see their reviews.

I laughed at the first one.

I don't even know what my response is to the second. I want to say confusion, but not even close.
 

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As has been said before, please don't use our papers as topics for debate,at least not the tabloids like the Mail. Broadsheets like the Guardian or Independent, fine use them because they usually have well reasoned arguments.
The Mail is more conservative than the conservative party and borders on racism nearly every day. Please, please, please, please, please DON'T use the Mail ever again as a topic of debate but if you absolutely have to at least make it abundantly clear that it is a crap newspaper which feeds on peoples fear and bends the truth to breaking point. Don't use it without making it clear it's a heap of crap and that it in no way represents the views of any other British newspaper because 9 times out of 10 it doesn't.

Sorry for the anger above it's just that I hate the Mail and would rather you didn't use it as it severely misrepresents Britain as being almost Victorian in there conservatism when we are really like that at all.
 

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SomeBrianDude said:
Ah, the Daily Mail prints more reactionary sensationalist bullshit, and the world keeps turning.
Zhukov said:
Someone show these people the film Four Lions.
I would love to see the average Daily Mail reader's response to that film, or to any of the episodes of Brass Eye, the spoof documentary series Chris Morris did back in the 90s.
Brass-eye was legendary.

Anyway, OT: I'm pretty sure this is something my grandma will go on about next time i see her (she's an avid daily mail reader) but aside from that I doubt the trailer will have much effect. It all depends on how far Modern Warfare 3 goes in terms of replicating previous terroist attacks.
 

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Title seemed a little misleading... Poor-taste I can understand, but ultra-violent? This looks no more violent than any other CoD game, and for "ultra-violent", pretty sure Manhunt 2 (especially on Wii) still takes the cake...
 

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Do you guys see why I don't trust the mainstream media for news? Mis/uninforming, corporatist, and sensationalist. Not. To. Be. Trusted. Under any circumstances. And all this article is is a desperate cry for support over one part of the damn trailer, and the assessment is ridiculous.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
By the way, I thought people would like to see their reviews.

No.

I refuse to believe that a professional news reporter was paid to write these.

Aside from them telling us damn near nothing about the actual games, it sounds like they were written by a menstruating tween.

Please tell me you're joking.

If not...

 

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JDKJ said:
Why are all these posters focusing on the Daily Mail? They've only reported what Mediawatch UK had to say. Unless they completely fabricated the statements of Mediawatch UK, then what the Daily Mail has to say isn't the real issue. Rather, what Mediawatch UK has to say is the real issue.
Entirely fair, they also 'only report' what the racist group the EDF have to say, as well as anti muslim groups, anyone who might have any problem at all with anything fun, from the worlds of movies, TV, gaming, or music.

If we go back to the Ross/Brand thing where they left an offensive voicemail, it got 2 complaints, one of which was about Brand mocking Ross's speech impediment. The Mail then runs a campaign about how offensive it was, knowing their readers would never have listened to it or cared, so they 'helpfully' put links up so everyone could be offended.

They're also pissed that Ross earned so much, despite the money going to his production company and keeping others in work. They don't seem to have any criticism for Littlejohn, who makes crappy jokes daily about people in wheelchairs, johnny foreigner, towelheads and the like, seems he really earns his million pounds a year, or Jan Moir, who finds the deaths of homosexuals to be just nature fixing a glitch.

I should state that the Sun is almost as bad, but at least most people don't take it seriously, it's more a comic for adults than a newspaper, and the Express is possibly even more reactionary than the Mail, but not as widespread.

A final point to get me back on topic, how is this like 7/7? Because there's a shot of the underground? Surely MS Train Simulator should be banned too, then. That's like claiming all other games are mocking 9/11 because there's some action near a building, I'm certainly surprised they haven't called for the banning of Jenga, it's soo disrespectful to America.

Again, it's the usual double standard that games are just fun toys for kids, and therefore can't deal with any topic that movies, books and TV have a free run on.
 

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Sounds kind of like the public outcry MW2 got when it was about to be released in the States. It's all fun and games to people until their country is depicted as being attacked... Wait, it's still fun in games.
 

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Does this person, and I use the term lightly, even know what ultra-violence is? Because it's not in any Call of Duty game I've played. And that trailer does not have any ultra-violence in it.
 

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Logan Westbrook said:
it's not hard to see how people affected by the bombings might feel uneasy about the Modern Warfare 3 trailer.
But it's never the people affected that complain...

It's always a group of twatheads using the people affected as an excuse to push their own "moral" agenda.
 

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The Daily Hate Mail attacks almost everything. Videogames, Immigrants and Homosexuals seem to be their primary targets. Most rational people in the UK despise the Daily Mail.
 

JDKJ

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SenseOfTumour said:
JDKJ said:
Why are all these posters focusing on the Daily Mail? They've only reported what Mediawatch UK had to say. Unless they completely fabricated the statements of Mediawatch UK, then what the Daily Mail has to say isn't the real issue. Rather, what Mediawatch UK has to say is the real issue.
Entirely fair, they also 'only report' what the racist group the EDF have to say, as well as anti muslim groups, anyone who might have any problem at all with anything fun, from the worlds of movies, TV, gaming, or music.

If we go back to the Ross/Brand thing where they left an offensive voicemail, it got 2 complaints, one of which was about Brand mocking Ross's speech impediment. The Mail then runs a campaign about how offensive it was, knowing their readers would never have listened to it or cared, so they 'helpfully' put links up so everyone could be offended.

They're also pissed that Ross earned so much, despite the money going to his production company and keeping others in work. They don't seem to have any criticism for Littlejohn, who makes crappy jokes daily about people in wheelchairs, johnny foreigner, towelheads and the like, seems he really earns his million pounds a year, or Jan Moir, who finds the deaths of homosexuals to be just nature fixing a glitch.

I should state that the Sun is almost as bad, but at least most people don't take it seriously, it's more a comic for adults than a newspaper, and the Express is possibly even more reactionary than the Mail, but not as widespread.

A final point to get me back on topic, how is this like 7/7? Because there's a shot of the underground? Surely MS Train Simulator should be banned too, then. That's like claiming all other games are mocking 9/11 because there's some action near a building, I'm certainly surprised they haven't called for the banning of Jenga, it's soo disrespectful to America.

Again, it's the usual double standard that games are just fun toys for kids, and therefore can't deal with any topic that movies, books and TV have a free run on.
But I'm not seeing what any of that has to with Mediawatch UK. It seems to me that posters are substituting dismissal of the Daily Mail (easy to do) for squarely addressing Mediawatch UK's position (a much harder task). Shooting the messenger doesn't have much to do with the actual message.