Fox News Attacks NEA for Classifying Games as Art
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With people like fox news, its no surprise people take their news from Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert.
EDIT: Still, you'd think Fox news would like CoD.
EDIT: Still, you'd think Fox news would like CoD.
I mean that if they invade and start attacking us, they can destroy fox news, then after fox is gone, we can start talking about peace negotiations...Firehound said:
god damn fox you clever bastards,
you take the highly debatable topic of the government funding the arts,(which is a legit debate in of it self) and push you fuckin anti-gamers agenda to the for front.
Why!
government funding for any type of art in a time like this could have made for an intelligent, thought-provoking segment(you know like an an actually news station)and what do you do instead... use the fact that artistic video games now can qualify for that funding and fucking ran with it.
Fox news you disgust me all the way down to my fuckin core, abusing the freedoms of speech and press just to twist stories and push political agendas
smh.....
you take the highly debatable topic of the government funding the arts,(which is a legit debate in of it self) and push you fuckin anti-gamers agenda to the for front.
Why!
government funding for any type of art in a time like this could have made for an intelligent, thought-provoking segment(you know like an an actually news station)and what do you do instead... use the fact that artistic video games now can qualify for that funding and fucking ran with it.
Fox news you disgust me all the way down to my fuckin core, abusing the freedoms of speech and press just to twist stories and push political agendas
smh.....
I'd love to think that I didn't see this coming a mile off.
But I'm not going to even dignify watching the video. Fox News is a parasite and doesn't need my viewing.
But I'm not going to even dignify watching the video. Fox News is a parasite and doesn't need my viewing.
No, a good reporter will challange a responce and have a go at them for ignoring the question or paying it off. A good reporter would have asked more engaing questions of both sides. A good reporter would not have shown obviously non-artictic, uneducational games flashing on the screen the whole time. A good reporter/news organisation would never have produced that clip.Ace IV said:
Besides the obvious problem of forcing people to support something regardless of whether they want to or not, the big problem with funding art is that art is extremely subjective. Some people think cramming paint up your backside and letting loose on a big piece o' canvas is art. Some tool in Italy took a dog off the street tied it up and starved it to death and called that art. There are more examples of crazy things people consider art but the point is what one person thinks of as art another person thinks of as simply offensive.K_Dub said:
If people want to give money to organizations that support the arts that is awesome. However, I think that the taxpayers' pockets simply isn't where the arts should be looking for their funding. Let the arts be supported through donations or private funding any number of fundraising efforts but not through public coffers. I personally do not want my money going to supporting the arts. However, being part of the half of Americans that pay taxes I am being forced to against my will.
Exactly this is intentionally to create controversy and give them money...NoDamnNames said:once again fox news gets the equivalent of thousands in free advertising by running offensive material and having angry people post their nonsensical dribble all over the web
with fox "news" mediums the best thing to do is ignore them, and they will literally die.
They still manage to piss me off.
Grand Theft Auto. Duke Nukem. That school shooting mod game. The Conker series. Twisted Metal. Mortal Kombat. Ninjabread Man. God of War. Most of the Movie Tie-in games out there.Ranchcroutons said:
You're really going to try to classify all those kinds of games as art?
I can keep going if you need me to.
I'm bothered by the fact that you're even being 'semi' serious.Oscar90 said:
Meh. Let fox have their rants, clearly they've got the money to waste on these pointless segements wherein they deny all reality and stick to the facts they have in their minor knowledge which is probably attain from reading a headline such as NEA change criteria to include interactive media as a form of art.
The only issue i sadly see in this is that it will cause a lot of strife now that they have people believing that games like call of duty are recieving government funding for being a form of art.
However they fail to look at other media and put things into perspective. For example films are classes as an art form, although i bet scream 4 was getting funds from the government. When will small minded people realise that because it includes this form of media does not mean it includes all of that media. (poorly written sentence but i think you get the gist.)
I do truly hope that NEA doesn't change its criteria back because of hot headed fools like those from fox making a big fuss. I doubt it will change it, but stranger things have happened.
The only issue i sadly see in this is that it will cause a lot of strife now that they have people believing that games like call of duty are recieving government funding for being a form of art.
However they fail to look at other media and put things into perspective. For example films are classes as an art form, although i bet scream 4 was getting funds from the government. When will small minded people realise that because it includes this form of media does not mean it includes all of that media. (poorly written sentence but i think you get the gist.)
I do truly hope that NEA doesn't change its criteria back because of hot headed fools like those from fox making a big fuss. I doubt it will change it, but stranger things have happened.
The problem is, i watch Fox for the daily news, but anything opinionated i take with a pinch of salt. My mother is very supportive of Fox News in all ways and everytime their bias about videogames comes up i make her read the article on the Escapist. I think im making progress though.