The Press' Double Standard for Violence in Media

tehk1w1 - 39 days 14 hours ago

I doubt the video was "intentionally" leaked.

There really was no need to. Millions of copies were going to sell regardless. If anything, it might have hurt sales.

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nan0 - 39 days 12 hours ago

At first it seems shocking, but in games like GTA you do much more and the whole game dwells on it. I guess they've given up on that series and need a new one to attack.

The fact is things like this happen in the world, and even though I won't be getting the game (yet) is because I'm broke and just bought 3 new games including tekken 6 which I've been looking foward to before the PS3 was released.

Also, I like the fact that IW is willing to give different prespectives no matter how politically incorrect it may be. If the graphics were better, the story mode twice as long, and a re design of the style would probably make this one of the best games ever. I for one loved the mission all ghilled up in the first MW.

All and all, I feel like IW took advantage of knowing the fact that it wold of sold good even if it was COD4 with a two slapped on it. It just isn't that good for me to go after... Good luck though.

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Krud - 35 days 1 hour ago

I think TV shows (which are often owned by the same companies that run news media) have felt increasingly threatened by home video games as they've increased in popularity and exposure, the logic being that people playing games are not watching TV. (Which is not an unfair leap of logic, as I've watched far less TV after getting a computer or consol than I did beforehand.) But even then there's a double standard, since they don't seem to take as negative a view toward the internet (which is even more directly "threatening".) Anyway, I think that predisposes them to view games in a more critical light. And like this article said, it doesn't help matters that games are a foreign concept to a lot of people still working in news media, though that is gradually changing.

Having said that, there is something to be said about interactivity as a learning tool (vs. passive hearing/reading/watching), though I don't know that they really bring that up specifically. Then again, when dealing with the double-standard of war images, is witnessing such atrocities in reality on the news or depicted in a movie that much better than pressing some buttons to see an equivalent in a game? In each scenario, it's a matter of parents paying attention to ratings, period.

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