RAW-Raptor22
01-26-2008, 08:18 PM
This is so annoying already. Fox News has again joined the "crusade" against "inappropriate content" in video games over one of the cut scenes in the game Mass Effect. Here's the Dailytech article:
Dailytech Article - http://www.dailytech.com/Fox+News+Recklessly+Misrepresents+Sex+Facts+in+Mas s+Effect/article10455.htm
Electronic Arts calls out Fox News reporting as hitting "a new level of recklessness"
When it comes to reporting, cable news has a certain reputation of sensationalizing its subjects. Perhaps the mantra of the station is to make its news as entertaining as some of its fictional shows on the network.
Mainstream media making a mountain out of molehill about video game is nothing new to me. I rarely care anymore after years of seeing Jack Thompson run his mouth about Rockstar’s games.
I don’t get my news from TV anymore, so I only became aware of this when the gaming community furiously exploded at the gross negligence for the truth as demonstrated by Fox News.
Fox News during one of its evening Live Desk programs aired feature headlined “’SE’XBOX? MICROSOFT: CLAIMS ARE INACCURATE & MISLEADING” which targeted the apparent crimes committed on today’s use through BioWare’s Mass Effect.
More specifically, the television channel positioned game’s brief sexual encounter as some sort of grossly graphic abomination of modern day morality in a “think of the children” tone. Problem is, Fox News gets it all wrong. While I don’t expect all audiences to understand what an RPG is, let alone Mass Effect, Fox News appears so clueless that its staff isn’t even aware that ESRB game ratings also appear on the front of the game box.
Radio talk show host and author Cooper Lawrence was called on by Fox News to give her take on the outrageously damaging effects that games such as Mass Effect have on the world. Of course, she has never played Mass Effect. Long-time video game media member Geoff Keighley tries his best to provide calm and sensible rebuttals, but Fox News appears uninterested in his logic and instead turns it over to a panel that continues to comment on the horrors of Mass Effect.
I could go on and on about the inaccuracies presented by Fox News that night, but it’s probably easiest if you just viewed the video clip here.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/163925.html
Dailytech Article - http://www.dailytech.com/Fox+News+Recklessly+Misrepresents+Sex+Facts+in+Mas s+Effect/article10455.htm
Electronic Arts calls out Fox News reporting as hitting "a new level of recklessness"
When it comes to reporting, cable news has a certain reputation of sensationalizing its subjects. Perhaps the mantra of the station is to make its news as entertaining as some of its fictional shows on the network.
Mainstream media making a mountain out of molehill about video game is nothing new to me. I rarely care anymore after years of seeing Jack Thompson run his mouth about Rockstar’s games.
I don’t get my news from TV anymore, so I only became aware of this when the gaming community furiously exploded at the gross negligence for the truth as demonstrated by Fox News.
Fox News during one of its evening Live Desk programs aired feature headlined “’SE’XBOX? MICROSOFT: CLAIMS ARE INACCURATE & MISLEADING” which targeted the apparent crimes committed on today’s use through BioWare’s Mass Effect.
More specifically, the television channel positioned game’s brief sexual encounter as some sort of grossly graphic abomination of modern day morality in a “think of the children” tone. Problem is, Fox News gets it all wrong. While I don’t expect all audiences to understand what an RPG is, let alone Mass Effect, Fox News appears so clueless that its staff isn’t even aware that ESRB game ratings also appear on the front of the game box.
Radio talk show host and author Cooper Lawrence was called on by Fox News to give her take on the outrageously damaging effects that games such as Mass Effect have on the world. Of course, she has never played Mass Effect. Long-time video game media member Geoff Keighley tries his best to provide calm and sensible rebuttals, but Fox News appears uninterested in his logic and instead turns it over to a panel that continues to comment on the horrors of Mass Effect.
I could go on and on about the inaccuracies presented by Fox News that night, but it’s probably easiest if you just viewed the video clip here.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/163925.html