FOX News anti game industry rhetoric returns
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As someone from the UK its always a total shock to see what our friends over the pond have to put up with in regards to Fox News. Every now and then I will see some youtube video of a show on Fox News where they are debating "Evil and violent video games".
Its always a whole panel of people who are against games with maybe one person from the industry on video link having to defend creativity against a biased wall of negativity. They just want to divert attention and blame from the inevitable homicides that come with relaxed gun laws.
Now today I find they are having ago again regarding Mass Effect 3 just because it has a gay character which their friends/bankroller say "sets a bad example".
Its an opinion I have, not a political one, I just think Fox News are ignorant and I dunno how people can stand non objective news. At the end of the day I guess they are kind of doing us a favour by giving titles air time anyway
Its always a whole panel of people who are against games with maybe one person from the industry on video link having to defend creativity against a biased wall of negativity. They just want to divert attention and blame from the inevitable homicides that come with relaxed gun laws.
Now today I find they are having ago again regarding Mass Effect 3 just because it has a gay character which their friends/bankroller say "sets a bad example".
Its an opinion I have, not a political one, I just think Fox News are ignorant and I dunno how people can stand non objective news. At the end of the day I guess they are kind of doing us a favour by giving titles air time anyway
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Sorry I wasn't clear in my first post. The first part is what happened on fox news the second is what I assumed was connected with their whole movement, its all over youtube if you type fox news video games for example.
The second part I should probably stand slightly corrected in that its probably generalising for me to associate Fox news with all right wing Christian activists, in this case known as the Florida family association who complained because the game has gay characters which they claim sets a bad example http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/324630/20120405/mass-effect-3-gay-romance-options-ea.htm.
Are the two paragraphs from your first post referring to the mass effect one fiasco, and the second two paragraphs referring to the family association?
Which is why it worries me when the BBC director general wants UK broadcasters to be freed from regulated impartiality practices. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/mark-thompson-bbc-fox-news)
there is little doubt that given the enormous interest and popularity of FOX NEWS amoung the UK public that FOX NEWS UK!!! is in preparation at this very moment! so pat yourself on the back with out your support, viewership, and advertizements such as this thread F.N.U.K would not have been possible.
actually the BBC is just as factually incorrect and prone to propaganda as fox news is. they just cater to a different sensibility. there is still a unifying underline national consensus on certain issues among the elite which keeps the media rather dull. and the organ itself is state owned. the US however has no national press it is privately owned and there are very large competing interests among the elite. that gives rise to the crazy press in the US.
i gave up on television. i have no time to be brainwashed by fools.
I realy don't get why seemingly everyone in the USA gets butthurt about every little thing, what's up with that?
I never could understand the arguments against violent video games, saying they cause violence. I've played Doom and Mortal Kombat, literally, since I was 3 or 4. And I cried once killing a spider.
If people want to be violent, they will be. I don't think Video Games are to blame.
The major news networks in the US are particularly bad because of market-driven news cycles and the networks efforts to appeal to an increasingly divided political spectrum.
There are legitimate, important news stories Fox covers well that the other networks have at best refused to touch - first to mind is the gun-smuggling conspiracy that is currently crashing down on the Dept. of Justice. Fox has been dogging that hard and actually doing some digging... the other networks have either been ignoring it completely or releasing DOJ press releases as "reporting", completely blithe to the fact (or complicit in doing so) that the press releases are part and parcel of the coverup that's being torn into by the House Oversight Committee.
On the other hand, Fox was the last place I'd expect to get impartial coverage of anything during the Bush years. They sure didn't care much about Valerie Plame, the DOJ Attorney firings, or pretty much anything else that reflected badly on POTUS 43 or his cronies.
And then you have NPR, which is supposed to be impartial by not being beholden to advertisers, yet is apparently staffed at the top levels by people that end up resigning when political extremist and racist ideological rants they went off on leak out to the public. Yay.
There have been stories of conservative christian groups getting all fussy about companies supporting gay rights but that usually gets squashed by an outpouring of support from the general public. That's what the recent ME & SWTOR thing were about.
Yeah I do agree that the BBC is pretty bias at times, just in a different way. It's not as overtly bias as Fox News obviously - and thankfully there are a few checks and balances at the Beeb that most companies don't have. However, like you said, it still is skewed. The aftermath of the Iraq war and the reporting of all the enquires displays that pretty clearly.
The satire seems to make it much more accurate IMHO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq_R4LrzHb4