So, shockingly, up until now nobody’s really tried to tie the recent deaths in Aurora, Colarado to video games. Why bother when the story has a much easier “this thing old people don’t like is to blame” angle built right in? The tragedy happened at a Batman movie screening, so somehow Batman or movies caused it, or uh, something. The end. Await Pulitzer.
Ah, but the dogged newshounds at Fox weren’t about to stop there. Their template for covering mass shootings says you have to implicate video games, so here they are grasping with everything they have for a video game connection…
“On May 30, 2012, Dr. Lynne Fenton and two graduate students presented a Student Health Case Conference talk called “World of Warcraft: The Use of Archetypes in Psychotherapy” during the university’s psychiatry department’s grand rounds. World of Warcraft was reportedly one of the video games that James Holmes frequently played.”
Dr. Fenton is the psychiatrist shooter James Holmes mailed a notebook to detailing his plans. So yes, a person remotely tied to the Aurora tragedy knew some things about the very popular video game James Holmes reportedly played. Okay then.
Hopefully this was just Fox News throwing s–t at the wall to see what sticks, and they’ll quickly move on to something else. For instance, I bet James Holmes has, at some point in his life, listened to a rap song. Look into it Fox.
via Kotaku
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Don’t forget that damn rock-n-roll, MTV, and TV violence! WHO WILL SAVE US?
Yea, I think he may have taken a shit because he ate a burrito from Taco Bell once, let’s look into Taco Bell as well.
This is absolutely ridiculous, just another prime example of the completel and utter stupidity of 24 hour cable news and Fox News.
Gotta love Fox news and their blame game. Try to demonize a teen rated video game with millions of players and say it could be a cause, but defend the ability of the shooter to get an AR-15 with a 100 round magazine and thousands of rounds of ammo in a couple days.
What about techno music? I heard he was listening to techno. Now that is a ban I could get behind, get on it Fox, you dipsh$%s.
[Signs the techno ban petition].
Are you kidding me? There’s no way you actually read Fox’s article. Just because you post the link to the article doesn’t mean you can pull out one paragraph and completely fabricate the idea that “Fox News Is Trying (And Largely Failing) To Tie World Of Warcraft To The Aurora Shootings”. At no point did Fox even remotely try to connect the shooting with Holmes’ video game habits. That’s fucking ridiculous, OBVIOUSLY, and everyone (including Fox) knows that. All that Fox said was that Holmes’ psychiatrist at the University of Colorado at one point hosted a conference about incorporating the themes and archetypes of World of Warcraft in methods of psychotherapy, and that James Holmes coincidentally liked to play World of Warcraft. So tell me how Fox tried to connect the shooting to video games. Some people eat up anything they hear on the internet and think it’s true, but they don’t realize that people like Nathan Birch just sit at their computers all day and pull stories out their asses to try to make people with different opinions sound stupid. Posts like this don’t deserve to be in this website.
And why the f–k would they even mention that if they weren’t trying to do the “tie a mass murder to video games” thing? How is World of Warcraft in any way related to these murders? It’s not. Why does the fact that Dr. Fenton once hosted some random conference about WoW matter? It doesn’t. Literally the only reason to bring up the WoW stuff is to passive aggressively link it to the murders.
Oh, and yeah, I did read the Fox article I linked to. I read all the articles I link to, because a) it’s kind of a minimum requirement of this job, and b) sometimes people like you decide to show up and start spouting distortions.
was there ever a golden age of journalism?
What about Gotham City Imposters…? I love that game…..how long do you thing it will take for FOX to google “BATMAN VIDEO GAME”