TV News: Games “Normalize” Killing …sigh
Posted on Feb 09, 2008 under Main |
Omaha’s KETV-7 has angered gamers with a report that says video games “normalize” killing.
In the story, reporter Suzanne Deyo interviews a local child psychologist and a parent, both of whom offer a scary perspective on video games. The psychologist, Dr. Greg Snyder, seems to slam even the mildest of titles:
Exposure to violent video games, even E rated video games, increases aggressive thoughts, increases pro-social behavior and increases general arousal.
The more normal [violence] is, the more likely it is they’re going to activate or engage in those behaviors when provoked or even unprovoked.
GP: If Dr. Snyder has any expertise in video games, it remains unstated in the KETV report. However, as GamePolitics has demonstrated, it is not uncommon for mainstream news organizations to pull an uninformed psychologist into their reporting in an effort to add credibility (see How Fox Morning Show Sensationalised the Halo-in-Church Issue and Fox News Smears Mass Effect).
Deyo also interviewed parent Chuck Payne, whose primary qualification seems to be that he ”knows some teens who are allowed to play for hours a day.” Payne said:
When they’re done playing, that’s all that’s on their mind. Kill. Kill. Kill.
GP: Ooooookay… And Mr. Payne determined this, how, exactly?
Also interviewed was Ryan Miller, an exec with midwest retail chain Gamers, (and, we’re proud to say, a GP reader)
Just like any new media, it gets attacked. When any new genre of music comes out, it gets attacked. TV will, of course, get attacked. I’m sure, way back when, books got attacked.
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