I <3 Fox News
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"Boys who play video games can't tell the difference between what they see and the real world"
*Engage the Thickie-alert, activate nerve staples and prepare for ignorance*
Just because an anonymous researcher in Maryland came to that conclusion doesn't mean it's true. That's pretty much like saying, "If I can master DoA, I can take down the first person who looks at me wrong without breaking a sweat." Now, I don't speak for whatever poor tortured soul the researchers claimed couldn't tell the difference between a game and life, but when I look at the brilliant HD gore sprays in Gears of War, and then glance at my noodly, bony arms, I realize that this is tragically, as close to being a lumberjack/soldier as it gets for me.
*Engage the Thickie-alert, activate nerve staples and prepare for ignorance*
Just because an anonymous researcher in Maryland came to that conclusion doesn't mean it's true. That's pretty much like saying, "If I can master DoA, I can take down the first person who looks at me wrong without breaking a sweat." Now, I don't speak for whatever poor tortured soul the researchers claimed couldn't tell the difference between a game and life, but when I look at the brilliant HD gore sprays in Gears of War, and then glance at my noodly, bony arms, I realize that this is tragically, as close to being a lumberjack/soldier as it gets for me.
looking at this now, this may be a good thing in the long run, fox news and others are used to making video game violence or sexuallity a scape goat and taking pot shots at them whenever they feel like, now we have EA and gamers fighting back and while they aren't swinging for the fences (though i think they should) there is actually a good possibility of a lawsuit if EA is willing to go that far. i think it's about time someone stepped up and kicked people in the ass for all the ignorant comments they've made about video games, depending on how big this goes it may wind up forcing fox into a corner and finally giving us legitamacy in the eyes of news media. we're a social group like every other and if calling one group "nappy headed hoes" can get ya fired inflamatory comments against us should have consequences too.
Although I love Fox News and am ambivalent toward EA, EA should definitely threaten legal action for slander. The gratuitous headline is protected, and ignorance and freedom of the press are both pretty big sticks. Nonetheless, it appears FNC made statements of fact that are demonstrably untrue, easily determined to be untrue, and easily proven to have a negative effect on EA and its business partners. This is going to be increasingly important because all the leading candidates for president have at one time or another expressed a desire to regulate gaming. Further, this comes on the heels of Fox reporting the Newsweek story about Barack Obama attending a madrassa, a term with a specific meaning (a Muslim school teaching Muslim theology first, as well as general education to some degree), when in fact the school he attended was a public school in a Muslim country which did not teach Muslim theology and in fact had numerous non-Muslim students.
Fox is the number one cable news network, and needs to learn to better check its facts. I like the format with advocates arguing each side (even when one side is clearly composed of obliviots), but the patently untrue accusation of full digital nudity was made by the Fox host, Martha MacCullum, not a random idiot willing to say say stupid things on television. By that standard, Fox (not Fox News) puts full nudity on broadcast television weekly, which is illegal (whereas nudity in a video game is not actually illegal.)
They need to be slapped upside they head.
Fox is the number one cable news network, and needs to learn to better check its facts. I like the format with advocates arguing each side (even when one side is clearly composed of obliviots), but the patently untrue accusation of full digital nudity was made by the Fox host, Martha MacCullum, not a random idiot willing to say say stupid things on television. By that standard, Fox (not Fox News) puts full nudity on broadcast television weekly, which is illegal (whereas nudity in a video game is not actually illegal.)
They need to be slapped upside they head.
just thought i'd put this up here for you guys, i don't know if it'll do any good or even if it's worth trying since the heat has died down but it should be posted for the sake of oportunity
http://www.petitiononline.com/foxnews9/
it's a petition for fox news to apologize and do the right thing
http://www.petitiononline.com/foxnews9/
it's a petition for fox news to apologize and do the right thing
http://kotaku.com/349296/ea-vs-fox-lawrence-recants-mass-effect-judgementtamago said:
Victory Ebaums style!
As far as online petitions go, they never work. If the Suits ever do see the petition they will only see it as it goes from the left side of their desk to the right and into the trash.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/arts/television/26mass.html?_r=3&ref=arts&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
I know we've already got a few articles but I'm just so happy. Justice, sweet sweet internet justice.
I know we've already got a few articles but I'm just so happy. Justice, sweet sweet internet justice.