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Where would modern comedy be without Fox News? This is a serious question, by the way. However you may feel about their coverage of political events, the one-two punch of catering to an older audience (the average age of a Fox News viewer is 65) and being utterly out of touch with every single trend on the planet has led to comedy gold. Now, instead of the old man screaming hilariously about those damn kids on his lawn, we have 24 hours of it, on cable, every day, easily uploaded to YouTube.
And nowhere is it funnier than when they start yelling about video games.
i hate fox news just saying'
also anyone notice in the mw2 one it says ppl? lmao
I also remember when GTA was released some news presenter reported you could have sex with a prostitute and cut her in half with a chainsaw. Half right, eh?
It bothers me that people that discuss gaming on the news still refer to 'points'. In GTA you apprently get points for running people over, or in MW2 you got points for gunning down innocent people. Wrong and wrong. I just wish someone that knows their stuff would go on the news when a story like this pops up and verbally bitch slap some of the ignorant news presenters.
That just makes all other news channels rich people who tell dumb people what "progress" is.
Edit: From what I've seen
^I can agree with that as well. My first reply wasn't meant as a defense of Fox News, it was a defense of half-truths. Sure Fox is really just a microphone for the Republican party 90% of the time (when talking politics); however, why do bs commercials from MSNBC rarely get smudged?
Example:
You have a 15-30 second monologue of Rachel Maddow in front of the Hoover Dam saying "These projects can't be done without gov't", when in actuality ALL man-made projects were done through human ingenuity; not necessarily all were made by some gov't. My point being: if a news channel mistakes the term "government" for "human ingenuity", who's to say their definition of "progress" isn't skewed either?
If this happens, everyone here has to call in, tell them that you weren't going to buy the game, but after seeing the clips they showed, decided you should. Or, if you're feeling brave, that you'll buy it for your ten-year-old son.
Aha ha ha ha...I hate Fox News. If anyone is going to send us back to barbaric times, it's them.
Fox News has a constant issue with talking about video games without any research or bias reporting. Here is a look back at some of the more popular over-reactions...
All the major news networks just re-hash Reuters and the AP.
Fox is not exclusive in its inability to report a real story with competent reporters.
They might not be the only ones, but they're the worst ones. "OH YOU DON'T AAGREE WELL YOU'RE WRONG." I know, because I live in a house where all the other people watch is that, and shows like NCSI(Not that NCSI is a bad show. Yeah, MSNBC has some people on there too that take their views too far too.
Gamers, stop watching Fox News?????????????
How about everyone, stop watching Fox News!
This is what Charlie Brooker has to say about it http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Yes, because CNN or MSNBC are just the bastion of journalistic integrity aren't they?
They just don't do anything worth talking about. Every mainstream news source has its own slant due to the inevitable biases of those who work there, but Fox will blatantly make things up as they go along. They create 'news' where none actually exists just because they want to stir the pot. In many ways they're mainstream trolls that just say whatever they can to screw with people and rake in those sensationalized ratings.
This is not game news. This is just lame political jabs. Who the hell approved this shit?
Political jabs? Politics play very little part in this article at all. It's about a willful lack of professionalism in a media that people flock to.
You don't see CNN claiming that Katamari trains children to destroy the world, and you don't see MSNBC claiming that L.A. Noire encourages spousal abuse. Are they liberal mouthpieces? You betcha. But they're still commenting on things that are actually news and have some basis on reality.
