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MSNBC: Video Games An "Easy Scapegoat" ?
Old 02-19-2008, 09:33 PM   #1
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MSNBC: Video Games An "Easy Scapegoat" ?


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In the wake of the NIU shooting and various pundits finding ways to link violent video games to the tragedy, MSNBC has decided to defend video games, specifically calling out infamous attorney Jack Thompson for his self promotion during school shootings. (They have done this once before during the Virginia Tech massacre.)

In a piece entitled "Playing the blame game: Why search our souls when video games make such an easy scapegoat?" MSNBC's Winda Benedetti writes, "Faster than you can say wild speculation and reckless sensationalism, [Thompson] leapt in front of Fox News cameras and suggested that video games were to blame." Later, Benedetti adds, "The fact is, one would be hard pressed to find a young man of Kazmierczak's age who has not played video games."

Thompson is, unsurprisingly, a bit put out. In an email to MSNBC legal department forwarded to us by Thompson, the Miami attorney asserted his intention to "bring a civil action in state court in Flordia for libel." Thompson further called the two articles "hit pieces" and "crazed and libelous screed" and mentions that NBC did not mind having him on the Today Show / NBC Nightly news about ten times.

"But once my criticism began to inconvenience Bill Gates' NBC partner, Microsoft, (MSNBC.com is a 50/50 partnership) then all of a sudden I'm the Anti-Christ," said Thompson.

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Re: MSNBC: Video Games An "Easy Scapegoat" ?
Old 02-19-2008, 09:36 PM   #2
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Re: MSNBC: Video Games An "Easy Scapegoat" ?

Id agree, Video Games are always blamed for things because they are an easy scapegoat. Most kids play them so they can easily be blamed for influencing things and also a lot of adults play them. So they can be linked to a wide age range and also many games are violent so that can come into play too.

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