just gotta tell ya. the evening standard is free. given out at all tube stations for people to read on their way home from work.samsonguy920 said:
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British Media Blames Games For London Riots
- Thread starter Earnest Cavalli
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Er, Ladies and Gentlemen. On investigating the matter further I went onto the London Standard's site and checked out an E-Copy.
Which you can find Here. [http://standardonline.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx]
The Line under the title actually reads: 'Children as Young as Ten Hunted by Police after riots across city'.
No mention of Video Games at all, merely the mention of children involved in the riots, a discussion about the police and the lack of Boris Johnson.
Curious, no? It's unlikely they would have changed it so soon, particularly as they can hardly change the print copies.
Has anyone actually seen a copy of the Evening Standard to verify?
Which you can find Here. [http://standardonline.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx]
The Line under the title actually reads: 'Children as Young as Ten Hunted by Police after riots across city'.
No mention of Video Games at all, merely the mention of children involved in the riots, a discussion about the police and the lack of Boris Johnson.
Curious, no? It's unlikely they would have changed it so soon, particularly as they can hardly change the print copies.
Has anyone actually seen a copy of the Evening Standard to verify?
I hate to say it but this article isn't 100% accurate on their gta history.
"the Grand Theft Auto series has never featured any form of interactive looting or rioting."?
that's not true there was a mission in vice city where you were required to start a riot in order to steal a truck that was in lock up.
i'm not saying I agree that video games are at fault in fact I strongly believe otherwise. I'm just saying that if you're going to write an article make sure that you're information is 100% correct when claiming that another article/documentary is wrong otherwise you end up looking like a hypocrite.
"the Grand Theft Auto series has never featured any form of interactive looting or rioting."?
that's not true there was a mission in vice city where you were required to start a riot in order to steal a truck that was in lock up.
i'm not saying I agree that video games are at fault in fact I strongly believe otherwise. I'm just saying that if you're going to write an article make sure that you're information is 100% correct when claiming that another article/documentary is wrong otherwise you end up looking like a hypocrite.
Just found a Tweet from CVG [http://twitter.com/#!/CVG_UK/status/100656012968722432] reading:Raikoin said:
"The West End final edition of the Evening Standard has all mention of video games removed from its front page."
Well well, it seems the plot has thickened!
It's obvious what happened. There was of course some unrest when suddenly one of the cops accidentally shot a civilian. This sparked unrest, and soon the riots broke out. What no one knows of course is that it was actually all the work of a very busty woman and her fat hungry friend. It was all to force alchemists into creating a philosopher stone!Stilkon said:
Also, watch this while reading my post:
Seriously, this is just as logical explanation for this as "video games did it." Can we seriously just get back to blaming Rock and Roll for everything?
right since i played (scapegoat auto cough i mean) grand theft auto before i will become a looter...
ok what ever you say (Morons).
this is first time in history [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots] riot has ever happened and if a few has happens before it was the fault of video game even if it did not even exist at that time. it not like it's human nature that is the cause of these riots. i mean all humans are peacefull, kind and would never even think of hurting a fly all the time until they were corrupted by violent games like gta. It must the video games fault what else could it be? (pure sarcasm)
ok what ever you say (Morons).
this is first time in history [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots] riot has ever happened and if a few has happens before it was the fault of video game even if it did not even exist at that time. it not like it's human nature that is the cause of these riots. i mean all humans are peacefull, kind and would never even think of hurting a fly all the time until they were corrupted by violent games like gta. It must the video games fault what else could it be? (pure sarcasm)
Never mind The Clash, those miserable buggers The Smiths saw this one coming.
"Panic on the streets of London,
Panic on the streets of Birmingham."
Returning to a more on topic vibe, I can?t say that I?m surprised that some lazy, uninformed journalist has invented such a link. I?m only surprised they weren?t from the Daily Mail.
EDIT - On a positive note, it does only seem to be this paper that mentions it, rather than the British Media in general. This is progress people. At least for now, until one of the big boys runs with this angle.
"Panic on the streets of London,
Panic on the streets of Birmingham."
Returning to a more on topic vibe, I can?t say that I?m surprised that some lazy, uninformed journalist has invented such a link. I?m only surprised they weren?t from the Daily Mail.
EDIT - On a positive note, it does only seem to be this paper that mentions it, rather than the British Media in general. This is progress people. At least for now, until one of the big boys runs with this angle.
If these games has a effect it's the parents fault for buying these games for their kids. The realitilty is these people look for any excuse to riot.
It's the EVENING Standard, I imagine all the other papers will be busy blaming Pong and Space Invaders tomorrowBlunderboy said:
Really tho, it's hilarious to see them desperately name check GTA in an attempt to be relevant, it's like some 70 year old judge trying to blame rap music and 'that snoopy dogg fellow' for all crime.
On a serious note however, aren't one of the biggest causes of rioting and street violence the British print media? Would we even HAVE the EDL showing up looking to fight 'foreigners' at marches if both immigrants and Muslims hadn't been so heavily and constantly demonised by the press?
I think the EDL and the BNP would consist of about 3 retarded skinheads per town, if it wasn't for the hatred stirred up by the Mail/Sun/Express etc. Whereas videogames generally actively allow you to be who you want, much of the time, and don't care you're murdering so long as you do it in a cool way
Also, I'm sceptical whenever I read 'riot' as it usually means 500,000 peaceful protesters showed up and 3 skinheads chucked a bin thru a window, therefore it was 'a violent riot' and the press can ignore the reason for the march, as seen on the student protests.
also, the edit doesn't surprise me, the Mail recently rapidly reworded an article about a girl killed by a tragic accident after realising that trying to blame striking teachers for the death by falling tree branch was perhaps slightly wrong. The press will use any stretch of the imagination to blame games, or any of their other favourite targets, until they're actually told they've gone too far, usually in the online comments sections.
Makes me want to adapt a sig I recently saw into this 'A regular guy, a banker, and a student are in a room with ten biscuits. The banker grabs nine and yells at the guy 'Quick, man, that student's going to loot YOUR biscuit!'
Our idiot papers are probably blaming it on GTA because of the very similar events in San Andreas in the 'Tenpenny riots' or at least thats the first connection I made..
But no its stupid now, was originally down to 'fighting the system' and 'justice' of this dodgy incident of the police shooting someone who was down with the guns and drugs and was holding a piece when they shot him (apparently..?) but now its just gone to the standard pot and its every man for himself.. I'm just waiting for Dave Cameron to install martial law on old London Town and watch the shit go down..
But no its stupid now, was originally down to 'fighting the system' and 'justice' of this dodgy incident of the police shooting someone who was down with the guns and drugs and was holding a piece when they shot him (apparently..?) but now its just gone to the standard pot and its every man for himself.. I'm just waiting for Dave Cameron to install martial law on old London Town and watch the shit go down..