Mainstream Press Still Needs Help With Games

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 7, 2006 @08:15AM from the what-is-this-warcraft-you-speak-of? dept.

Just when things seemed to be looking up, we have two prime examples of poor reporting on the gaming hobby. Chris Kohler, via a Game|Life blog post, points out an ABC report entitled Health Alert: Pulling the plug on Videogames. They list the dangers to your health that gaming can cause (excessive blinking, of course) and include a handly list of things to do besides game. Like 'Learn to change the oil or a tire on a car'. Meanwhile, the Jacksonville Daily News reports on those massively multiplayer thingies. From that article: "Anderson is one of an unknown number of individuals who split their time between the reality most inhabit and the virtual realities conjured by Internet role-playing game designers whose dreamscapes have become increasingly engrossing and even addictive."

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In other news... by RyoShin · 2006-02-07 08:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

While I agree that journalism has it out for video games (and porn, and gambling, and...), those aren't the only things that they have trouble with. In fact, there are a lot of other things that should be understood first in journalism, before understanding video games.

Let's start with little subjects, like Politics, fact-checking, and real news.

Then we'll worry about video games.