Comments on: NOT a video game murder…

By: Poss

Poss — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:27:22 +0000

I heard this on the radio today and thought I would look further into it. The radio announcer said, “Three men charged in the X-Box murder may be getting the death penalty…” She went on and said that they murdered people in similarity to an X-Box video game. I shook, my head because idiots like this do not help the gaming world at all. But now that I look at the real story, which I have read from multiple sources, I find that its actually the media that is giving video games the bad name this time. Most of the headlines either contain something to do with “X-Box” or “video game”. I am quite disappointed to find that the “video game” involvement in this murder is quite minor and should not be advertised as it is. If I were Microsoft, I would be doing something about this.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:41:36 +0000

Videogames are just the current inanimate object being demonized. I’m sure many will recall that firearms were the target during the 90′s. The fact that during any given year, they’re used 4 times more frequently (by civilians alone) in the U.S. to protect those merely going about their business than they are to jack cars, drive-by’s, rob stores, commit murders etc. was overlooked by a troubling majority of sheeple during that period. Of course one actually had to put some effort into finding these figures as no mainstream media source had much interest in presenting the relevant facts and statistics compiled from local and federal law enforcement agencies over the years.
There will always be politicians and members of the media (and braindead celebrities) with axes to grind and agendas to push. Easy objects to blame for societal problems that are not easy, or even possible, to rectify.

By: Democritus

Democritus — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:20:14 +0000

I recently took a class with Bill Kunz: Assistant Professor – Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences; UW Tacoma. You may recognize his name. He worked for Ted Turner as Producer of the Goodwill Games.

Bill thinks that the media has essentially devolved into a ‘survivor’ mentality.

Shock and Awe keywords like “video game” are always going to be used, regardless of how illogically and out of context, because it will cause the sheeople to read the paper or listen through the commercial break. Any opportunity to hang a riske or scary tagline over a story will be leapt upon.

It was my austere self who pointed out in class that Journalism has no math requirement. News Media people graduate with no firm education in math, physics, or the sciences in general. Most of them have never even so much as failed a botany class.

Without any grasp of logic, it’s no surprise that these spokespeople for the conglomerate megacorporations readily adhere to the most rediculous concepts. They don’t care a whit about sense. They care about ratings.

By: graphix3000

graphix3000 — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:11:52 +0000

While the media and politicians may argue that videogames harm people, science is finding ways to help people with them:
http://www.on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/4001/

By: kat

kat — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:53:24 +0000

That’s really confusing and it sounds like they argued and got into a fracas over a ‘stolen’ item that just happened to be an XBox.

Shouldn’t Burger King be under some scrutiny here as a hot bed of malcontents?

*shurgs* what do we expect though?The news is no longer the news but thinly veiled propaganda that serves the purposes of controlling interests; – Hilary Clinton will be the first Woman President and she’ll do it on the back of media violence targeted as a clear ‘threat’ to religious middle America.

All we can do is post comments based on what they don’t say and reading between the lines… just as effective ‘news’ imho.

By: elmuerte

elmuerte — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:26:09 +0000

It’s simple. Murder no longer sells, murder related to videogames does sell. It’s a hot item.
Would you have read those articles if it didn’t contain “murder” and “video game” in the headline? Probably not. So there’s the newspaper’s gain.
It’s just like the “shaved\wet pussy” images you can find on the internet.