Is the Game Media Being Oblivious?

MaryAlan writes "The National Summit on Video Games, Youth, and Public Policy was this weekend, and almost no one from the game media showed up. In fact, the game industry seems to pretty much be ignoring the whole event. There's an article up on GamesFirst, which attended the summit, that criticizes the mainstream game press pretty hard for not attending. Apparently only one game journalist showed up. From the article: 'The video game media owes it to our readers to come to events like this and listen, come here and think, and come here and base our editorials on the reality of what's being said instead of an interpretation of the talking points that are published afterwords. Too many of the people discussing these issues in forums do so based on the works of the game media, and too few in the gaming media are spending the time to make it justified.'"

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React to this, you ignorant right-wing shill

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Oil companies are only interested in profits for their shareholders, no matter what damage they do to the environment. For decades they've been supporting research by whore-researchers who are paid to find out that belching pollution into the atmosphere doesn't really damage the environment, in fact, it increases sexual potency in males and breast-size in females.

These "researchers" are the children of the "scientists" who did all the work for the tobacco companies back in the 50's and 60's.

And we have a President who will gladly send thousands of young Americans to die and spend the treasures of a nation on a war who's only purpose is to insure a steady supply of oil to the pricks who gave him a job when he was drunk and coked to the gills, and fat contracts to a company that is now providing "strategic" support to our military and just happens to have been run by our Vice-President.

And the MEDIA has been nothing but housepets for these men who would gladly destroy a great nation as long as their greed and desire for power is satisfied. Why would you think they'd pay attention to GAMES?

They'll only pay attention to games when the next GTA scandal happens, so they can satisfy the ignorant hicks who call themselves the "Values Voters", but really are just a bunch of uptight sociopaths who want to make sure the kids stay off their goddamn lawn.

So you there, you fat son of a bitch sitting at in front of your "ultimate gaming platform", get off your ass and vote or you'll not only lose your right to play Bully, but also your right to check out a little free porn and political speech on the Internet. Not to mention you'll end up sitting in the desert in a used set of body armor with blood stains and some other poor jerk's name stitched on the lining.

You've been warned. God Save America.