The Times about crack

by chosen • 22 Jan 2008, 19:17 • Journals
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/janice_turner/article3211999.ece

Don't care about the title, they flame gaming in general so it's yet another article about gaming eventhough they didn't do a good job with it but hey, I enjoyed the comments over there.
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Spree 22 Jan 2008, 19:18
lold, do they all have braincancer or smth? let them go do smth useful ;/
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miho 22 Jan 2008, 19:20
crack is kewl...espacially for kids...so i dont see a problem
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Cardo 22 Jan 2008, 19:29
I bet some 40 year old christian bitch wrote that article.
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senn 22 Jan 2008, 19:30
the guy is a failure

he tries to blame tv and xbox, and all i see is /cry /cry
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sol 22 Jan 2008, 19:36
Conservative media, not surprising.

QuoteWhereas I use my computer as little more than a typewriter that can order groceries


Amusing how she wants her kids to be active when she's setting the excellent example of ordering her groceries online, lazy bitch.
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im a tree 22 Jan 2008, 19:42
Gaming is like crack, I don't play ET because it's good, it's because it's stupidly addictive.


The article in itself is awesome, I love how she talks about "exposure to the media" when, if it wasn't for exposure to the media noone would even consider listening to her.
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Luk4ward 22 Jan 2008, 20:47
so how u know its a good game? bullshits detected
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Splodge 22 Jan 2008, 20:01
Im going to write a reply to the article in a sec.
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Paintrain 22 Jan 2008, 20:07
it's like with most things, too much is unhealthy
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cryptz 22 Jan 2008, 20:16
the last paragraph is rly good.
If feel like a sinner now
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evan 22 Jan 2008, 20:18
It was in last Saturdays Times and I sent her an email shortly after saying how bad the column was and misinformed she was generally.
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Splodge 22 Jan 2008, 20:18
QuoteJanice, I really think The Times should review your current employment contract. Your blurb talks about you writing "mainly, but not exclusively, on family matters" and yet you seem to have no grasp on the subject you are writing about in this article.

There are plenty of young people who have grown up in this media rich society playing video games and have gone on to be successful in many areas of life, achieve well academically and are successful in sports.

Maybe next time put your Thesaurus away to try and impress your editor and actually do some research into the subject rather than simply targeting a stereotype that many of the other members of the mainstream press seem to love to use as a scapegoat for all family issues.

Finally, and I thank another person for this point, you complain about peoples exposure to the media when, in fact, without this exposure I doubt as many people would have read your article.
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Vindicator 22 Jan 2008, 20:26
QuoteOnce, such kids would be the playground outcasts, but no longer. Mine are. Because, unlike the TV-hating parents, I refuse to buy them portable gaming consoles, Xboxes, GameCubes, PS2s. These are Satan's Sudoku, crack cocaine of the brain. Even the crappiest cartoon or lamest soap teaches a child about character, plot, drama, humour, life. Playing videogames, children are mentally imprisoned, wired into their evil creators' brains. And they play them - beepety-beep - on journeys, over family meals, any minute in which they find themselves unamused.


Ok...
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Luk4ward 22 Jan 2008, 20:47
-> watch zeigeist.com

part III about mass media including shit like times, np
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