Fox News Begins Two-Part Series Linking Games to Mass Murder

[Something Amyss]

You know what? The only way we're going to get Fox News to shut up is if we get together, buy them out, and shut them down permanently. If we can do that, it would show just how tired we are of the sensationalist shit we have to deal with every day that comes from them and other news outlets.

Ooh! Ooh! Can we do the same to MSNBC?

Or... we could just ignore it. You know, like they don't want us to.

I somehow doubt they care what we do. They're out to scapegoat us, but our input is otherwise completely unnecessary.

 

[Taum]

Fox News doing its part to try and blame computer games rather than the real enemy of contrails!

 

[TheScottishMexican42]

I hope ya'll know the metaphor.
On a slightly related note, I actually wrote an essay on why violent video games are not harmful for children for school. Got an A for it. I think I still have it saved as well.

 

[Chaosian]

I'm beginning to wonder how many people actually looked at the article before coming down and hating on it?
For what it's worth, it's not all that bad at all. There's a lot of editorializing, and Fox's position is quite clear with the sequence of quotes, but most of what's there is fact. To be a fair, a good amount of time is spent on admitting that there's no one answer, and that if there is a connection, it needs to be studied a lot more.

 

[MCerberus]

Fox News doing its part to try and blame computer games rather than the real enemy of contrails!

Except the fluoride CHEMICAL in the water mind controls you into forgetting about chem trails faking Obama's birth certificate.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

I actually wrote an essay on why violent video games are not harmful for children for school. Got an A for it. I think I still have it saved as well.

Really? I'd like to see that, if it's ok to share it.

OT: Can Fox News-no, scratch that, the entire Fox network-just be shut down already? I legitimately don't understand why they're still around.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

I'm beginning to wonder how many people actually looked at the article before coming down and hating on it?
For what it's worth, it's not all that bad at all. There's a lot of editorializing, and Fox's position is quite clear with the sequence of quotes, but most of what's there is fact. To be a fair, a good amount of time is spent on admitting that there's no one answer, and that if there is a connection, it needs to be studied a lot more.

I didn't, but from what you said there, it's even worse than it sounded at first glance. They admit there's no real link, but then say VIDJYA GAYMS R EBUL anyway?

 

[Something Amyss]

Good thing I play Microsoft Flight Sim all the time. I think I'm ready to be a pilot.

I forget: what sim/air combat game DID they try and blame 9/11 on?

I mean, I have trouble believing they'd let that gem just sail by.

Why is it I get the feeling that they hate games because of games like Fallout and Bioshock?

That would require they 1. played them and 2 took the message.

They thought Mass Effect was a virtual rape simulator.

Remember guns don't kill people, video games kill people. wait that doesn't make any sense.

Guns don't kill people. Crazy people kill people. And video games kill people. With guns. But we don't want to restrict crazy people or video gamers from having guns.

I can't tell if Fox News is going: "YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE SOMETHING. YOU SHOULD BE MAD."
or if they're doing a more traditional

Also, I bet 100% of the mass murderers have watched or been around someone that watched a yellow-journalism 'special'. Cable news kills babies.

I'd say "young people like something" is the older and more traditional.

I hear they all wore pants. Clearly, pants lead to murder!

If we ignore the trolls they will eventually go away. That's what i hope anyways.

Not as long as it's big money with another group. Say the scared old white people who are their demographic bread and butter.

 

[Vivi22]

Why must we even acknowledge a story like this. Fox lying to manufacture a story isn't news, and reporting on it gives it far more credit than it deserves.

 

[Kajin]

Breaking news. Fox likes to crucify video games as a cheap attempt to boost ratings and score fake morality points with the "old people" and "ignorant" demographics. Story at eleven. I long for the day when such matters are regarded as so trivial as to not even warrant a response from the more civilized game playing masses.

Pretty much the best way to counter crap like this, in my opinion, is to just sit back and wait. Gaming is so mainstream that eventually all the people playing it now will grow up and introduce a new generation of youngsters to games. The previous generation will grow old and fade into the dark abyss of time itself. Just as our father who hated television before us, and our father's father who hated radio before him and our father's father's father who probably thought fancy pants book learning was a sign of the devil (something I do not doubt for an instant).

Eventually, we gamers will grow old and find something new to scapegoat for all of life's problems. Such is the way of things.

 

[Something Amyss]

Fox News doing its part to try and blame computer games rather than the real enemy of contrails!

Except the fluoride CHEMICAL in the water mind controls you into forgetting about chem trails faking Obama's birth certificate.

God, I am so SICK of this conspiracy theory bull! There is nothing to fear from fluoride!

...It's a distraction ploy by the reptile people. It's MILK you have to worry about! MILK keeps you from making the connection between reptiles, chemtrails, and Obama's secret Martian army!

WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!

...Wow. That was...Interesting. Did I write that?

 

[Erttheking]

Why is it I get the feeling that they hate games because of games like Fallout and Bioshock?

That would require they 1. played them and 2 took the message.

They thought Mass Effect was a virtual rape simulator.

That's certainly a good point. I still think it's a possibility though, I love Bioshock Infinite but it sure as Hell wasn't subtle. It even shows in the advertisements.

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bioshock_infinite_wallpapers_HD-1.jpg

 

[schrodinger]

Spoiler

What's the matter fox news? viewership going down so they need to do obvious inflammatory stories to get ratings?

I can switch this around on fox news and every news outlet and say that their parading around of mass murderers is causing to inspire another killer. Some murderers just want their 15 minutes of fame, and that's exactly what the news outlets gives them. The Columbine shooters, the Aurora theatre shooter, the Sandy Hook shooter all got their fame, so who's next for their 15 minutes?

^ Oh look, a rather biased story that has little research and is inflammatory.
Looks like Fox is a good teacher after all.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Fox News, an ongoing work of fiction. Tune in every day to see what wacky misadventures they get up to next.

Makes me think of Mike Birbiglia's joke about cable news. "I really like Fox News, because at least with Fox News you know it's not true. It's like playing a murder mystery. So if that didn't happen, and that didn't happen, then what diiiiid happennnn?"

 

[MCerberus]

Fox News doing its part to try and blame computer games rather than the real enemy of contrails!

Except the fluoride CHEMICAL in the water mind controls you into forgetting about chem trails faking Obama's birth certificate.

God, I am so SICK of this conspiracy theory bull! There is nothing to fear from fluoride!

...It's a distraction ploy by the reptile people. It's MILK you have to worry about! MILK keeps you from making the connection between reptiles, chemtrails, and Obama's secret Martian army!

WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!

...Wow. That was...Interesting. Did I write that?

So you're saying The Milk Man works for Fox News?

 

[ForrestDeath]

Can we get a two part series linking Fox News to mass murderers? I got the George Tiller Murder. Anymore and my google-fu runs into to much derp.

 

[Screamarie]

...........................I............................I just...*sigh.*...............It's.....no..........*sighs again.* Just fuck....Fox News, really?...really?! Okay it's time for Screamarie's handholding into logical zone. I know it's scary in there Fox News, but it's for your own good.

Now if we just stop and think about it calmly and rationally, you might realize that gaming today is pretty much everywhere. In fact, for a long time now, there have been very few men that haven't picked up at least one video game in their lifetime. So by law of averages some of those men are going to be murderers. A majority of these men have probably used toilet paper too. Now we don't blame toilet paper for murders now do we?

See? Very little if anything to do with games...it's just numbers. Now calm down Fox News, stop throwing that temper tantrum! I know you don't like being well-informed and having to face the facts but you're getting older now and you need to take some more responsibility for what you say.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Pretty funny how they say Adam Lanza was competing with Anders Breivik when companies like Fox "news" were the ones advertising Anders' actions, quoting him, showing provocative pictures and putting him at the center of everyones fucking attention.

 

[Skeleon]

Eh, good thing the viewerbase of Fox News is so old on average. You can only keep pointing at the scary, unknown, new things for so long until your audience that still buys into that crap starts to die off.
Now, don't get me wrong, there'll always be a scary, unknown, new thing to point to and scare people with, so there'll always be folks doing what Fox News does here. But it won't be games for much longer, I'd say.

 

[DerangedHobo]

Hey? Hey Fox News, ever think about how it's not the video games being fucked up it's the people? Just bat shit crazies are attracted to violent video games?
Cause and effect?
Fucking retards.