WhiteWolf Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 CNN's Erin Burnett took to the airwaves this week and presented the sensationalist videogames-create-killers argument as fact. Not surprisingly, this isn't sitting well with those involved in the industry. The always outspoken David Jaffe is one of those people, and he took to Twitter today to launch his own war of words against Burnett and her perceived agenda against the hobby.http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121849-David-Jaffe-Lashes-Out-at-CNN-AnchorJaffe's reply Dear @ErinBurnett : you, ma'am, are at best an idiot that @cnnshould be ashamed to have as an anchor. At worst, you are the worstkind of American: one who has allowed the healthy desire for success tomorph into a capitalistic cancer that makes it ok to ignore the facts inorder to make your product more appealing, regardless of theconsequences. To make matters worse, your own views about video games-which you seem to have no problem sharing with your hundreds ofthousands of viewers- clearly have not been formed by any actualresearch or real life experience with the medium.I am sure you will think yourself quick and insightful when you tell me-a video game director/designer accusing someone from another industryof making products for profit regardless of consequence- that I am thepot and you are the black kettle. However, if you actually listened toyour guests and read the studies (aka if you actually didsome....some....hmmm, what's that word you journalists have for it? Ohright: RESEARCH!) you would see you are wrong; you would see thereremains- after years of studies- zero evidence of video games withviolent subject matter causing real life violence.On the flip side- you know: YOUR side- there is very real evidence thatour society suffers greatly when our news media fails to properly informthe public.The fact that you think a guy who 'trains'* on a shooting video gamewould be granted the skill to horrifically, tragically kill thoseCHILDREN in Norway only serves to show how little research you do beforeyou open your mouth in front of your world wide audience under theguise of delivering news. I'm not sure what makes your argument lookmore ignorant: the fact that you don't back up your idiotic statement byshowing a correlation to the current health of America's agriculturesector with the popularity of Farmville OR the fact that the sick,deranged evil loser who killed those poor kids in Norway had picked sucha poor 'training' tool that after 700 hours of play, he was onlycapable of hitting little kids with his bullets versus the well armedpretend terrorists and highly skilled virtual soldiers that he wasbattling in the game.Shame on you. But more importantly: shame on your profession. It deserves so much better.**David*'Train' is such a stupid, irresponsible verb that you- without a shredof guilt- chew into with relish and repeat over and over because youknow it helps sell your false story.** I know journalism deserves better than you because I really loveSorkin's The Newsroom plus I saw Broadcast News back in high school atleast 5 times (I had a crush on Holly Hunter- so sue me!) which means-in your world- I must have the equivalent of a journalism degree fromColumbia plus a few years experience working for The Washington Post(back in the 70's, I mean, when it was really something special). Sobecause of that, I know you will trust me when I tell you that you arenot right for your current job and that you should quit and go try to beon something like The View or try to act in a movie or some such. ^^AWESOME - Respect Erin Burnett from CNN.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blH3Shg3nX8&feature=player_embedded F***king Bitch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentassassin Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 I always liked this guy... Never holds anything back.Even his interviews are awesome.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 A short gameplay clip is from BLOPS2, yet they say Call Of Duty/Infinity Ward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sackboy Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 Finally a good stand against the recent media parade against gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadoken Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 Too many fking retarded hypocrites in this world. I mean look at this nut job "Guns arent the problem , video games are" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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