Fox News Is Unsurprisingly Foul
by andres on Jan.25, 2008, under Headline News
So, remember Cooper Lawrence on the Fox Newscast? EA sent a letter to Fox News noting the various inaccuracies of the report and suggesting the unfairness and bias behind it, and basically asking for, if not a recant, acknowledgment of the mistake.
Well, Fox News technically replied to that email–in form of a Blackberry text message that read one line something along the lines of “Please contact the Fox public relations department.”
EA Vice President John Brown is not about to let the matter slide, for which I’m thankful, but I think in this situation we may have to concede the fact that Fox News is really not important anyway, and probably we should all just stop watching it instead of expect it to give us proper news. We’ll turn to the BBC or something.
Still, let’s hope that EA really starts to crack down on the absurd and outlandish statements made about video games nowadays. From journalists looking to aggrandize themselves and political candidates spewing nonsense about video games in order to promote their campaign, video games are entering the spotlight stage–much like books and movies before them. Let’s put on our best defensive faces and fight back with all we’ve got. Eventually the media’s glaring look will turn back to petty scandals and gaudy celebrities, and we can have our video games in peace.
This is a diplomatic war, gentlemen and ladies. Here’s to the future victory.
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January 26th, 2008 on 10:12 pm
Well said. Over on the Australian Gamer forums someone made the apt comparison of gamer culture to Fight Club. We’re everywhere, so don’t fuck with us.
January 28th, 2008 on 10:19 pm
As far as things go now, thankfully Cooper Lawrence recanted her statements and said she watched someone play the game for a few hours after all the riots broke out and realized her mistake.
As for Fox, I think they are still just saying they’ll give EA some airtime, which means, “Drag things out.”
Oh television, you are so silly.
July 17th, 2008 on 10:21 am
Well I see this in the same light as my grandfather, he got a tv, the first in the neighborhood he lived in, all the neighbors told him that it was ‘satan’s box’ and now I’ve herd that remark again on a few sites relating to the X-Box, i just find it funny! Not in the usual ha ha way, but in the way that disturbs the very fiber of what enertainment is. Games are awsome, video games even more so, Mass Effect is the ut-most awsome! And hopefully the world will give us a break! If not, ill just wait till they get some gonads to step up and realize that they went through all the same problems! Look at early America, the british said some things trying to keep people from deporting over to the new world to join the new colonys, then came along cars, and tv, then all kinds of cool stuff! Even books had to fight to be free at one time, often more then one, now electronic gaming is taking the blows from the rest of the world! Damn, looks like that one guy was right when he said, ‘Always looking forward and never back repeats mistakes, and causes old wars to arise again.’ well history keeps repeating it’s self and i’ve givin up on ever seeing time slip back and forth. LOOK AT THE PAST, THE FUTURE IS COMMING, BUT MAKE SURE YOU DONT REDO SOMETHING THATS ALREADY HAPPENED AND SCREWED UP EVERYTHING! End of vent. FTW!