"Horric" Videogames being blamed for UK riots by Supernanny Jo Frost

[Glowbug]

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/265108/Jo-Frost-I-can-fix-the-teen-rioters

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These horrific games where points are given for burning, shooting and killing, where the graphics are so realistic you believe that they?re real scenes of carnage, where those who play fantasise they have the power of life and death, are so brutal they completely desensitise anyone taking part.

Research shows that within 15 minutes of playing one of these games young men become highly aggressive and lack empathy in normal situations. It is not too fanciful to suggest it?s a short step from being immersed in this war-like world to taking that nightmare mindset on to the streets with all the consequences of anarchy and violence we saw rip apart cities.

I think the research published by the University of New Somewhereshire is slightly flawed, as I have only murdered twice after 15 minutes of Call of Duty.

Ah, just as I was starting to hope the media had grown up...

 

[Daystar Clarion]

What games have they been playing?

Because I have yet to play a game that's photorealistic.

 

[dogmachines]

What's this about "points" for violence? Games grew out of points long ago, only multiplayer really uses it. It's like nobody cares to see how in-depth a game can get these days, and just see blood and killing and instantly conclude it's a violent kill-fest that corrupts the youth of the world. Just because they can't tell the difference between pixels on a screen and a real person doesn't mean everyone else has the same retardation.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

"Research" another clear buzz word for "SOME ANONYMOUS SOURCES THAT MAY OR MAY NOT EXIST SAY.."

Also, she's called a "Supernanny". What do you expect from someone with such a title?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Wow. (Let's just keep in mind that this was done 2 days ago and still has no comments)

OK, apart from Jo Frost doing the fish pose and looking plastic, apart from the atrocious grammar and spelling,

Although I am known throughout the world as Supern anny I do not believe in a nanny state.

(sic)

Seriously?

Reality TV programmes, which glamorise sleeping around and by doing so act as an inspiration for 16-year-old girls who think it?s OK to get pregnant without a partner, are unacceptable.

Really?

Kids in gangs are carrying guns and knives because they feel no threat from our bobbies

Bobbies? Are we still in the 70's?

Having said that I totally concur with Bill Bratton, the former New York police chief who is now the Prime Minister?s new crime adviser, when he says drug gangs should fear the police.

Because New York has no crime whatsoever. Wait a minute...who's this?

?I am not sure I want to learn about gangs from an area of America that has 400 of them,? Sir Hugh Orde, head of the Association of Chief Police Officers, told British reporters about Los Angeles. ?It seems to me, if you?ve got 400 gangs, then you?re not being very effective. If you look at the style of policing in the states, and their levels of violence, they are fundamentally different from here.?

But back to Jo for the final word.

What is an 11-year-old doing out on the streets looting? That child should be electronically tagged and given a curfew. Youths hate being electronically tagged.

... If Only Diana was here...

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Riots like this have been around for decades, hell they used to blame comics.

 

[IronicBeet]

Well of course she would say that, she doesn't know anything about video games.

I could claim that watching Supernanny for 15 minutes makes children boring and lowers their IQ by at least 5 points and it would be a lot more true than what she's saying.

 

[Corporal Yakob]

I fully agree-I won a Team Deathmatch on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and immediately went outside and deployed a Tactical Nuke on 10 Downing Street. If I remember correctly, I killed everyone in Europe.

 

[AngryMongoose]

This is ridiculous. I only commit an average of 6 or 7 times as many murders on days I play LoL or CoD than otherwise. That is not statistically significant.

Well of course she would say that, she doesn't know anything about video games.

I could claim that watching Supernanny for 15 minutes makes children boring and lowers their IQ by at least 5 points and it would be a lot more true than what she's saying.

It probably makes people stupider, but it DEFINITELY makes me violent. Hate that show.

 

[malestrithe]

So now its time for any minor celebrity to voice their opinion about the London riots?

 

[Glowbug]

I fully agree-I won a Team Deathmatch on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and immediately went outside and deployed a Tactical Nuke on 10 Downing Street. If I remember correctly, I killed everyone in Europe.

Oh God! I remember that. It was a Tuesday.

 

[Berakh]

This is ridiculous. I only commit an average of 6 or 7 times as many murders on days I play LoL or CoD than otherwise. That is not statistically significant.

Rite, it's not even a single order of magnitude.

 

[Truly-A-Lie]

She once tried to convince people she had done a scientific study while actually phrasing herself "I set out to prove videogames linked with bad behaviour" so the fact she gets taken seriously worries me more than the fact she hates games.
The fact that we can teach A Clockwork Orange in our colleges whilst still slamming the blame for violence on entertainment is confusing to no end. How do they not see the repeating pattern?

 

[eggy32]

Becoming agressive and lacking empathy after 15 minutes of videogames?
That is one of the stupidest thigns I've ever read.

 

[ankensam]

did anyone notice that this is just a publicity stunt to encite rage and make people watch her show and if she has any books buy those too, because as you will notice she only mentions video games for the first couple paragraphs

 

[OceanRunner]

*sigh* I still have a lot of respect for Jo's childcare work with Supernanny and so on, but it's taken a hit to see her being so ignorant on a subject like this.

 

[DrWilhelm]

I seem to recall the "Supernanny", or another prejudiced bint like her, performing a study about video games on her show. If memory serves, the methodology was appalling and the results blatantly cherry picked.

I doubt (and I think actual, well-researched studies agree with me) that videogames make you any more agressive than reading a violent book, watching a violent film, or playing a competetive sport. And for fucks sake, even if ultra violent games did make porridge-brained, impressionable kiddies grab kitchen knives and go bananas on the neighbours cat, it's the parents fault for letting them play it in the first place. Those games have stamp sized age ratings on the front cover for a goddamned reason. Stop fobbing off your own failures onto a fictional nanny state and do some sodding parenting.

And holy crap, the picture of Miss Frost in that article is the most disturbing thing I've seen all week. Even people with nightmarish bone and skin deformities look more human than that plasticicsed terror-beast. You know what? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that it didn't even start as a real photo, it's just a bunch of stock shapes chosen at random and hastily photo-shopped into something loosely resembling a face. And if it is real, no wonder she can get kids to behave! The poor sprogs must be constantly on the edge of pant-staining terror; afraid that if they put a toe out of line, Supernanny will rip off her flesh mask and devour them in a frenzy of jagged inhuman fangs.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Perhaps it's the problem that parents let videogames and tv raise their children instead of doing it themselves.

Just sayin.