You're absolutely right that the selection of stories is influenced by the news organization's bias. However, I don't see what that has to do with this story, as video-games-cause-violence stories have been a staple of the media for years.
People here frequently complain about Fox News's biased viewpoint. I would say that there is no such thing as an unbiased news source. They all pretend to be "Fair and Balanced" but none of them are, because journalism is not a cold, dispassionate, objective science. And journalists naturally have their own opinions on what news to cover and how to cover it. CNN, ABC, CBS, etc., are just as biased in one direction as Fox is in another. In my opinion, when people say that one news source is objective and another is biased, what they really mean is that they generally share the biases of the first and disagree with those of the other.
What's really interesting is how fanboys have expanded the definition of spoiler. A Spoiler used to be something that completely ruins (hence the word "spoil") your enjoyment of a movie. Like, for example, revealing "whodunit" in a traditional murder mystery. Now it means (or so it seems to this non-fanboy) revealing anything you didn't know already.
I admit to being somewhat baffled by it all. If I were an editor I would have posted this story without even thinking that someone might consider it a spoiler.
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You're absolutely right that the selection of stories is influenced by the news organization's bias. However, I don't see what that has to do with this story, as video-games-cause-violence stories have been a staple of the media for years.
People here frequently complain about Fox News's biased viewpoint. I would say that there is no such thing as an unbiased news source. They all pretend to be "Fair and Balanced" but none of them are, because journalism is not a cold, dispassionate, objective science. And journalists naturally have their own opinions on what news to cover and how to cover it. CNN, ABC, CBS, etc., are just as biased in one direction as Fox is in another. In my opinion, when people say that one news source is objective and another is biased, what they really mean is that they generally share the biases of the first and disagree with those of the other.
I admit to being somewhat baffled by it all. If I were an editor I would have posted this story without even thinking that someone might consider it a spoiler.