Fox News Blames ‘Video Gamers’ For Baby Death
The world has its fair share of awful events happen every day, which all have a myriad of valid reasons why they occurred. However, Fox News seems dead set on blaming most of them on video games.
Following on from such greats as Videogames Hurt Nature, the Mass Effect scandal and labeling Jack Thompson as an “expert” the company have today emblazoned the front page of their website with the story Video Gamers Leave Baby To Die.
Now, when the death of a baby is terrible for anyone delving deeper into the story reveals that the parents were “playing video games, watching TV, feeding and caring for themselves” over the course of the 8 days they refused to care for their child.
As a result of this, there are of course loads of different angles to news outlet could have taken on the story, however, it seems they have once again jumped at the chance for a sensationalistic headline to bring more visitors to their site.
Update: The site has now change the story title to “Cops: Parents Played as Baby Died,” which is not as inflammatory, but still far from respectable.
Comments from our old site:
Monkey Rimmer on Friday 22nd February 2008 09:19:
So the article should read "Retarded unfit parents leave baby to die" Suppose it had a lucky escape, it would have ended up playing the likes of GTA at age 4 and would then have been treated as a trained killer! (See a previous news item on the excellent Dark Zero!)
Nogert on Saturday 23rd February 2008 18:08:
Fox are doing it wrong, if your going to relate the game to a death it's got to actually be related... like someone shot someone after playing a game, but not someone left someone in a car after playing a game.
Tennis player throws man off cliff, TENNIS IS EVIL!!!
Alasdair on Saturday 23rd February 2008 19:40:
This is getting out of hand. I say we retaliate.
Fox news blames everything on Video Games, therefore they hate modern technology.
'Fox News Hates Electricity'
Thats our headline.
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