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Originally posted by heerobya

 

That is were a little thing called "attentive parenting" comes into play.

If your child cannot handle or distiguish the difference between a game and real life, then the parents need to step in and do something.

I mean, look at the recent tragedy at the mall in Colorado. The kids parent (maybe adopted parent) admitted to the kid showing her the gun the night before the shooting happened. She said "as soon as I saw the reports on TV I just knew so-and-so-cowardly-kid was involved."

COME ON. She had the power to stop it.

Bad parenting = 99% of all "problem children" who either do something stupid/terrible at a young age or grow up to be pedifiles and perverts, stalking kids over MMOGs...

It's nature and nurture. It's also cause and effect.

So true. It's disturbing to see the amount of parents who expect some outside force (namely, the schools)  to raise their children while they attempt to stay "young".  My folks wanted me to explain the things I liked all the time (especially when it came to why they should pay 20 bucks a month for me to tie up the phone line every evening). It was annoying, but it at least gave them an idea of what I was into. They also had this mindset that if I couldn't explain it to them in a way that they'd understand it, then I must not really understand it myself - which meant I HAD to research it until I could or there was no way they were going to go along with it.

In direct response to the article, there was a time when I would've bashed Fox for something like this, but different people need to be informed different ways. My significant other's step-mom explained that she relies on articles like these to relay the seriousness of things she would otherwise see as insignificant (what's a game compared to keeping track of the finances of a university). While it does make her overly paranoid (she thought that by simply playing World of Warcraft, I was going to drop out of vet med school, become a recluse, and dump her step-daughter for a nightelf girlfriend), it does make her react to the little things that she should, in all honesty, be paying attention to in the first place. The burden then falls upon child to use her/his resources to show her the flip side of things. I can accept that argument and, as a result, accept Fox's attempt to inform the general public who need things presented to them that way. It's just kind of annoying to deal with the close-mindedness that it usually spawns...

That is why I watch FOX and MSNBC that way I get the conservative and liberal "truth" this allows me to estimate the real truth by heading somewhere in the middle.

Originally posted by karat76

That is why I watch FOX and MSNBC that way I get the conservative and liberal "truth" this allows me to estimate the real truth by heading somewhere in the middle.

Actually the truth is somewhere way to the side of both views.  Are these the only stories they could come up with considering the millions of players they had to work with?  I'd rather be stalked by a freak in a MMO then shot up in a school or a mall.  Just more idiotic fear-mongering to an ignorant public.

Originally posted by greymann

 

Originally posted by karat76

That is why I watch FOX and MSNBC that way I get the conservative and liberal "truth" this allows me to estimate the real truth by heading somewhere in the middle.

 

Actually the truth is somewhere way to the side of both views.  Are these the only stories they could come up with considering the millions of players they had to work with?  I'd rather be stalked by a freak in a MMO then shot up in a school or a mall.  Just more idiotic fear-mongering to an ignorant public.

I've found that BBC news (not BBC news America) but the actual British version is the most unbiased news source that is readily available in the U.S.

BBC + MSNBC + CNN + FOX + The Onion and I think I get a fairly unbiased and accurate analysis of what's going on in the world.... 

Originally posted by heerobya

 

Originally posted by greymann

 

Originally posted by karat76

That is why I watch FOX and MSNBC that way I get the conservative and liberal "truth" this allows me to estimate the real truth by heading somewhere in the middle.

 

Actually the truth is somewhere way to the side of both views.  Are these the only stories they could come up with considering the millions of players they had to work with?  I'd rather be stalked by a freak in a MMO then shot up in a school or a mall.  Just more idiotic fear-mongering to an ignorant public.

 

I've found that BBC news (not BBC news America) but the actual British version is the most unbiased news source that is readily available in the U.S.

BBC + MSNBC + CNN + FOX + The Onion and I think I get a fairly unbiased and accurate analysis of what's going on in the world.... 

Unbiased? LOL.  You're only listing the big corporation / establishment news sources.

Originally posted by Keogh

 

 

I take your comments more as a biased editorial against Fox News than an accurate dipection of the article.

I read the same article and did not read any alarmist warning of doom. I saw a reminder to be cautious with strangers that you meet online.

The article calls for people to be smart and use good judgement, not to "be afraid, be very afraid".

Fox News has a hell of a way of making the "bad" news they report on look like Satan incarnate.  It isn't bias to me.  If anyone is biased, it's the ultra conservative Fox News team.  Anything that has been a target or could be a target they attack when they are able to pull something out their asses or discover an evil in it.  They make NO attempts to suggest the rarity or unlikelyhood of the "evil" occurring, and instead suggest, either blatantly or subtly, that what they're reporting on is somehow a bad thing that every bad person will take advantage of to commit bad acts.

This article called for good judgement just as much as their news cast about the DS and pedophiles, and the way they presented that, it may as well had been a report on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Originally posted by greymann

 

Originally posted by heerobya

 

Originally posted by greymann

 

Originally posted by karat76

That is why I watch FOX and MSNBC that way I get the conservative and liberal "truth" this allows me to estimate the real truth by heading somewhere in the middle.

 

Actually the truth is somewhere way to the side of both views.  Are these the only stories they could come up with considering the millions of players they had to work with?  I'd rather be stalked by a freak in a MMO then shot up in a school or a mall.  Just more idiotic fear-mongering to an ignorant public.

 

I've found that BBC news (not BBC news America) but the actual British version is the most unbiased news source that is readily available in the U.S.

BBC + MSNBC + CNN + FOX + The Onion and I think I get a fairly unbiased and accurate analysis of what's going on in the world.... 

 

Unbiased? LOL.  You're only listing the big corporation / establishment news sources.

what would you suggest?

Oh, and btw.

anyone who looks like Kimberly Trenor Royce Clyde Zeigler II, will definitely kill their children... hell I would too.

Must have been the ugliest baby known to man. They were only doing a favor.

Originally posted by heerobya

 

Originally posted by greymann

 

Originally posted by heerobya

 

Originally posted by greymann

 

Originally posted by karat76

That is why I watch FOX and MSNBC that way I get the conservative and liberal "truth" this allows me to estimate the real truth by heading somewhere in the middle.

 

Actually the truth is somewhere way to the side of both views.  Are these the only stories they could come up with considering the millions of players they had to work with?  I'd rather be stalked by a freak in a MMO then shot up in a school or a mall.  Just more idiotic fear-mongering to an ignorant public.

 

I've found that BBC news (not BBC news America) but the actual British version is the most unbiased news source that is readily available in the U.S.

BBC + MSNBC + CNN + FOX + The Onion and I think I get a fairly unbiased and accurate analysis of what's going on in the world.... 

 

Unbiased? LOL.  You're only listing the big corporation / establishment news sources.

Yes, one biased against the U.S. one for the left, one for the right, and one biased against everyone else.... I then filter the nuggets of truth from the piles of B.S. and call it a day!

 

what would you suggest?

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