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Games As The Mainstream Media's Demon
1up has an editorial up exploring the biased nature of mainstream media gaming coverage, especially in light of the recent Hot Coffee scandal. From the article: "...Are CBS, Donny Deutsch, and Ed Bradley actually informing their viewers--or just inflaming their fears in a culture already on edge? Many, certainly many in the videogame industry, believe it's the latter. There's no shortage of gaming coverage, but it seems that what's out there, outside of enthusiast coverage, focuses disproportionately on certain kinds of games or on partial information that does no justice to the industry's successes. "
In other news: Slashdot has an article covering a gaming site's editorial covering the game coverage in press.
What about the real Gaming Demons? The ones that tell me to do bad things and hurt people...you know when you play the game backwards....
"Videogames can teach you all kinds of ways to kill. You can pick someone off with a high-powered rifle, reach into a human chest and rip out a beating heart, or turn someone into a chicken." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
Because god knows, I see a lot of stuff on the news about how punks have turned a old lady into a chicken and how the latest school violence involved a child reaching into a teacher's chest and ripping out a beating heart.