I recently saw a small clip from FOX news channel describing sex and nudity in a video game, Mass Effect, which featured an outside panel consisting of a model/book author/journalist and a game reviewer. The author represented the typical 'against' view and the game reviewer/critic was defeding the game.
As the interview proceeded, it was blatently obvious which side the interviewer was on, as she kept attacking the game based on unvalidated points. Her and the author made claims that the game was pervading the youth and making them want to go home and play a game just for the sex. They also disregarded the gamer's point that Microsoft, the developer of the game, has installed into their systems a comprehensive list of checks and balances for parents to regulate the content and the time allowed for their kids to play games. After a useless argument that failed to prove anything about the game, FOX news made it even worse by cutting back to their own panel to further slander the game without any proper defense. How typical. I've seen it done before with Jeremy Glick and others, FOX news and its biased structure took an almost harmless topic/game and verbally denounced it as a 'major problem' for America that 'needs to be watched' because its teaching kids to go home and play video games for sex.
Well, having played and beaten the game myself several times, at one point getting to the part of the game called into a question (a sex scene with partial nudity, NOT full), I know full well why I personally wanted the game, and it wasn't for sex. It's ludicrous to even suggest that the majority of gamers out there are male, are young, and are driven to sex BECAUSE of video games.
You see, it is not BECAUSE of video games at all, rather it is BECAUSE of the environment they grow up in that leads them to finding this in video games. It is the effect, not the cause. And FOX news seems to ignore that, or else is just too stupid to do enough research on a topic before making a claim.
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I was rather hesitant in adding violence in video games and that [butt]hole Jack Thompson into this debate, as it would make the debate rather large, but I decided it was for the better.
You see, this above incident made me curious, and so I looked up a video in which a revered gaming guru Adam Sessler went toe-to-toe with the
[in]famous Jack Thompson, attourney and fierce, fierce critic of video games. I have to say I was impressed, Thompson isn't the fierce lion I thought him to be. He was a bumbling, stammering critic who wasn't able to come up with any new proof against video games save the one study that found kids more readily violent thanks to seeing violence in video games... Like we haven't heard that before.
If you have ANY opinions about video games, violence as an effect of playing video games, Jack Thompson, or FOX news, please go ahead and debate. I find that my admittingly biased and harsh critique of FOX news stems from many years of seeing them report 'fairly' and 'balanced' on the Middle East when I can turn on another news station and hear completely different results.
Every time I have watched Fox News, the content that it portrays seems to be based on biased opinions.
News is supposed to address current issues without taking a biased standpoint.
They put on a show to sell advertising. That is every channels news, not just FOX. If you want facts do research.
A Fact is Always Better Than an Ideal.
My point of view is that of a journalist. You would think therefore, that I would like the news, but I do not like FOX news. I only recently came to this conclusion, but when I came to it, I came to it clearly. See, I had heart people bash it quite often, but I was like what can be so horrible about it? Finally, I was looking at something about the gay-hating church (which is a whole other post possibly) and it was horrible. They were attacking these people. That was NOT journalist, that was blatant attacking. I was appalled. You're right, journalists do research, they have an idea of what they're talking about before they spout of words.
So, I agree with you wholeheartedly. It possibly also helps that my boyfriend is a gamer. ;)
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~Voltaire
Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?" ~Joseph Henry Jackson
LizzieD
I think it's pretty substantial to state that Fox news is by no means fair and balanced. Additionally, I appreciate that you brought up the fact that violent video games simply exacerbate upon an already ingrown proclivity to violence.
My biggest complaint with the news station came with the interview of Jeremy Glick, a man whose father was killed on 9/11, being inside the Trade Center. When his opinions of Bush's administration, Bush's past, and who to blame differed from FOX pundit Bill O'Reilly's, O'Reilly went on the attack and blatantly revealed his opinions on TV in a way that was not only demeaning to Glick as a person whose father had died, not only presumptious in the way he purported to have known more about Glick's father than Glick himself, but not at all indicative of a person who should be reporting on politics.
We all know O'Reilly's attitude is purposefully biased and that we should not be offended by it (because he does it all the time), but he shouldn't be allowed to have ANY guests on his show other than Sean Hannity, George Bush, or Ann Coulter.