Alrighty! To kick off this blog let's start with a little rant on the Media shall we?
This morning, while watching WISHTV8, my local news station, they aired a nice little story on Grand Theft Auto IV, the next installment in the run(drive) and gun gaming series that just hit shelves this tuesday. The greatest thing about how my local news introduced the subject was that they were practically praising the game simply for how many copies it would sell. Quickly though, they turned to their normal facades of "Video game violence, baaaaad" as we've all surely seen before.
What makes this so funny and ironic though, is the fact that while trying to discredit the game, they quickly cut away, cutting off their own reporters to show "Breaking News". We ALL know it doesn't stop there, this "Breaking News" involved showing a picture of a car with bullet holes in it, and then doing a short story on a car that was pushed into a lake/pond/body of water. After that they decided it'd be a good idea to go back to the car with the bullet holes...reporting on some nice wholesome road rage and how someone just happened to get shot in the leg and shoulder I believe it was.
I don't know about G4TV's Epic Fail of the day, but this one surely takes the cake for my list of dumbest media move for today.
Tune in next week to see "Damnit Leroy!" or "How I got Shot: The Self-Inflicted Story" here on Insta-Scream (tm)
The road rage story is here:
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8247769
