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Originally Posted by Szlia As grotesque as this character might be, he is actualy issuing press releases, making himself visible, offering his time and presence for interviews, etc. Is there some people in the video game industry doing the same thing in order to have an image in the media that is closer to some sort of reality or are publishers too busy shooting themselves in the foot? |
The media only shows the sensational side of the story. Same reason you get stories where some eco-nutjob is screaming the world is about to end or some biblethumper telling us that the world really was made 6000 years ago and that dinosaur fossils where placed there by God to test our faith.
They don't show the boring common sense side of the stories (since that would show that there was no 'story' to begin with). If they stuck to factual reporting they'd run out of stuff to fill a program with very quickly.
Media is just business, it works by making you think that what they show you is important enough for you to give them your money by buying their newspaper or (indirectly) by watching their channel. An enormous amount of this overblown crap gets thrown in with the real news, and plenty of people will never know the difference anyway. Because of this, they turn into parrots that repeat whatever the nice man in the suit tells them is "important". Video game violence/nudity is just one more "important" issue for them to worry about.
