GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers

jvm writes "The Video Game Ombudsman and Curmudgeon Gamer currently have posts with opposing views on the recent and oft-criticized NY Post article about the violence in the Grand Theft Auto series of games. The Ombudsman discourages gamers from getting upset over the 'false and irresponsible' writing in the NY Post, equating it with a 'National Enquirer story saying that video games cause AIDS'. In response, this Curmudgeon says that's plain wrong, that gamers should 'stop dodging the issue' of game violence and 'start talking realistically about degrees of harm, freedoms, and responsibility'. So what's a gamer to do? Ignore the obviously clueless mainstream press or start the soul searching? Oh, and Penny Arcade has its own angle on the perils of dealing with the mainstream press, in response to how the noble Child's Play was represented."

Comments

Re:Culture of blame and misinformation

[torpor]

Basically the whole argument that bad behaviour stems from playing video games is just insane as the people who believe it.

Yeah, really? Insane, eh?

geeze, its odd how easy and simple it is for an average Joe like yourself to freely use such clinical and precise terms as 'insane'.

Do you really know what that word means? Clinically? Or are you just using it metaphorically, in the bourgeouis sense?

If anything they should censor the news or clean it up, how many murders with gruesome details to they report on each day?

Its not either/or. This -also- needs to be addressed in modern society, just as with irresponsible video games which give kids an opportunity to take [lives,stuff] just for the fun of it, without consequence.