GTAIV ads pulled in Chicago |
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BY Jeremy Hill April 22nd, 2008 |
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Let the media circus begin! GTAIV hasn’t even been released yet and it’s already being called at least partially responsible for the shooting deaths of six people. Our totally unbiased *sarcasm* friends over at Fox news in Chicago reported that this weekend was “especially violent” for Chicago. And apparently, it’s appropriate to blame Grand Theft Auto IV ads on the the side of CTA buses and platforms.
Remember the story Fox news covered on Mass Effect’s “graphic sex scenes” which featured “full digital nudity?” That story was by and large a direct slam on the video game industry based on faulty information gathering. Looks like they’re at it again. Fair and balanced indeed.
April 22nd, 2008
at 9:26 pm
Meh, it’s Fox news, What are you gonna do? :P
They wont be happy till we’re all god fearing, child worshiping, media hating (irony?) NRA members.
April 22nd, 2008
at 10:17 pm
Do they honestly believe a child is going to look at a billboard of three men standing in a row and a woman licking a lollipop and go out and shoot up some place? Because they’re pretty, how do I put this? Retarded.
I hate Fox news and people who believe that the simplest of advertising (just because its for a known violent game) will make children violent.
April 22nd, 2008
at 11:31 pm
Absolutely ridiculous. Fox News must be closed down, and the quickest way to do that is for people to stop giving interviews to them. They’re nothing but lies, propaganda, withholding facts and distorting the truth. Can’t believe people actually still watch that.
April 23rd, 2008
at 1:27 am
I don’t understand the controversy over this stuff. It’s so sad. Video games like Grand Theft Auto shouldn’t be banned because someone’s kid is too retarded to get a proper grip on reality and goes shooting police men. Like where the hell is he gonna get a gun anyway? Don’t blame Grand Theft Auto, blame yourself America. Thank god I don’t live in that country. I don’t want to tune in to the pile of bull crap that is Fox News everyday. It just angers me so.