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Brent Bozell on Nudity in Upcoming Video Games
Ant writes "Brent Bozell of TownHall.com wrote an editorial about the video game nudity trend. It covers games like 'Playboy: The Mansion' and 'Singles: Flirt Up Your Life' that are due out later this year." Ultimately, Bozell seems to distrust the ESRB, citing Eidos' decision to only sell Singles in downloadable form.
Weapons of Mass Distortion : The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media
Brent Bozell is Founder and President of the Media Research Center, whose poll "Do any of the Pew Research Center findings (that 'Liberals Dominate Journalism, Think Media Too Easy on Bush') surprise you?", had only three responses:
Yes. I was surprised so many journalists would admit they're liberal.
No. But it's nice to have more proof of what we already knew.
Don't know.
Talk about loaded questions? Everyone's entitled to their opinons, Mr. Bozell included, but before judging his article on nudity in videogames, be forewarned that Bozell's site makes the Simpsons' Fox News spoof ("Do Democrats cause cancer?") look like the friggin' New York Times...
I completely overlooked Singles: Flirt Up Your Life at E3. Now that this article has brought it to my attention, I'm definitely going to check it out!
Let us, for laughs, point out the assumptions this idiot has made in the article:
The target audience for the Sims 2, and the Singles, is pasty white teenage boys.
There is on-screen explicit sex in "The SingleS"
Pornography is inherently evil.
Exposing children to pornography is inherently evil.
Video game players tend to be ignorant, smut-obsessed, teenage males.
Parents are stupid and ignorant and are perfectly willing to lend their sons credit cards so that they can purchase an Adults-Only game over the internet.
The ESRB is a toothless organization composed only of malcontent pedophiles who wish to corrupt our children's minds with sex and violence.
Movies inherently contain less violence, filthy sex, and coarse language than videogames do, and are much harder for little kids to see/obtain.
Homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle, and depictions of homosexual acts are somehow worse than ordinary pornography.
Questions you might ask the author:
Did you actually play the games in question?
Are you aware of any of the earlier shit that came from Japan?
If so, are you aware how it is sold, and what the sales volume for it is, and what the target audience is?
If you're so morally pure, then why do you use such sexually charged language?
Are you compensating for something by growing that thick, 1970's-style beard?
Are you aware of the how much better the pornography industry is doing in terms of gross sales in comparison to the movie industry? Are you aware of how much more profitable video games seem to be in comparison with traditional feature films? Why do you think that is?
Do you have a template or something for writing reactionary articles against bullshit you don't understand? Could you try using a different template next time, perhaps one more subtle?
Uh, Nudity in computer games has been going on for a very very long time actually. Leisure Suit Larry has been running since, oh, before VGA even.
This is only being drummed up because computer games are now more in the eye of the public.
I would imagine the same groups that have been constantly telling us that video games turn all human children into psychopathic murderers are taking a break from that to assure us that video games turn them all into sex fiends.
In reality, nothing will change, this will blow over, and it's nothing but good publicity for the game sellers.
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
Actually Hefner has done some atrocious things in his magazines.
In order to sanitise his magazine to appease the moral masses (and sell more copy), his fake breasted women all have parts of their, well, lower body parts photoshopped out.
This in turn causes hundreds of normal girls who see these magazines going to doctors and asking for plastic surgery because they don't think they're "normal".
This is just plain wrong!
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
Bozell like so many others are starting to realize that the internet is an end-around on many of the established ways in which commerce has typically been regulated/disrupted. He's upset because he doesn't have the freedom to restrict it's availablity, because it's on the internet for *Gasp* 20 dollars cheaper than a new game in the stores. And to add insult to injury, If the product is not a physical object, The gov, et all can't demand it be sold behind the counter in a brown wrapper.
Just wait though, "watchdogs groups" will eventually get the interstate commerce clause to be inclusive of bits traveling across networks, and Bozell will have his way.
Enjoy the frontier while it lasts.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
What ever happened to Leisure Suit Larry?
He took a few years off, and just recently decided to return: Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.