Luke Plunkett — Yesterday, FOX News ran a story on Bulletstorm and got pretty mucheverything wrong. That's not the real story, though. They real story is how they got everything wrong: they did it on purpose.Yes, we know, it's FOX News, but still, how the media outlet steadfastly refused to consider both sides of the argument in this piece makes for interesting reading.
You see, in preparing the piece - in which it was claimed outrageously that upcoming shooter Bulletstorm can help encourage rape- FOX sought comment from authors, psychologists and video game experts.
The psychologists got their turn, and performed as expected. But other experts and commenters were not so adequately involved.
M2 Research's Billy Pidgeon, for example, was quoted alarmingly out of context. And Scott Steinberg, a respected industry veteran, was contacted and his responses - which clearly spelled out the game's satirical bent - not used at all.
As John Walker over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun points out, what's of interest here isn't FOX per se, but how it serves as a wonderfully detailed example of the short shrift games are given in media that doesn't normally cover, well, games.
You can read both men's full, unedited responses to FOX's questions at the link below, where you'll also find FOX's delightfully loaded questions reprinted in full.
[The Fox News Debacle: TechSavvy Update]
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