Mainstream Press Still Needs Help With Games

Just when things seemed to be looking up, we have two prime examples of poor reporting on the gaming hobby. Chris Kohler, via a Game|Life blog post, points out an ABC report entitled Health Alert: Pulling the plug on Videogames. They list the dangers to your health that gaming can cause (excessive blinking, of course) and include a handly list of things to do besides game. Like 'Learn to change the oil or a tire on a car'. Meanwhile, the Jacksonville Daily News reports on those massively multiplayer thingies. From that article: "Anderson is one of an unknown number of individuals who split their time between the reality most inhabit and the virtual realities conjured by Internet role-playing game designers whose dreamscapes have become increasingly engrossing and even addictive."

Local TV News

[The-Bavis]

The "CBS" article is not surprisingly really from a local news organization under the CBS umbrella. "Reporting" such as this show why there is never any reason to watch the local news outside of sports and maybe the weather if you like to pretend they can make good predictions.

It's all fear-mongering and inane chatter. Instead of mindlessly sitting on the couch watching reports of violence and learning more ways that I will soon die, I will do one of the following activities:

1. Play video games.
2. Go running.
3. Enjoy electronic interactive entertainment.
4. Transport body at a greater rate than typical walking.
5. React to stimuli on a viewing device with hand and digit movements on a mechanism that then controls activity occurring on viewing device.
6. Move body without assistance of vehicle from origin to a mid-point and back to origin in a manner that requires both feet to occasionally leave the ground.
7. ....