Video games seen making kids fat and violent
A nice bit of sensationalism. This is the headline despite this little note in the article itself.
“Monday’s preview of the film, due for prime time broadcasting on Swedish TV4 television on Wednesday, was followed by a panel debate, which concluded that scientific findings of the effects, if any, of violent video games were scant.”
Video games can make children fat and, in the case of violent games popular among teenage and younger boys, aggressive and even criminal, Swedish experts say.
Well, that’s a nice spin, considering that the quotes in the article had only one expert saying the thing about aggressiveness and the rest not liking the fat issue.
And can TV4 stop showing documentaries? Seriously, there’s not a shred of journalistic ambitions on that channel.
I’m not familiar with Swedish TV. Would TV4 be characterised as “tabloid” style programming?
If they’re fat and violent, at least they probably can’t catch you if you run away.
Unless you trip and fall, and then they’re on you like a whirlwind. A whirlwind made of greasy, fat fists and video-game-honed savagery and reflexes. shudder
Hmm, I smell movie idea! :wink:
Unless you trip and fall, and then they’re on you like a whirlwind. A whirlwind made of greasy, fat fists and video-game-honed savagery and reflexes. shudder[/quote]
And I’m sure all that running made them hungry. Really, really hungry.
Videogamers: this generation’s answer to zombies.
Swedish TV is built on the state-owned Public Service network, SVT, which was all there was for several decades. Then cable and satellite started broadcasting, mostly from London, which of course wasn’t available for everyone, then in the last 80s the TV revolution happened, as the first real Swedish commercial channel started broadcasting from abroad, TV3. The political opinion was such that they felt they should open up the ground-based for commercial interests, which spawned TV4, which promised to prove that even though it’s commercial, it could be just as serious as SVT if it wanted.
To make a long story short, these days they seem to have given up, mostly, though better than TV3 and Channel 5 and the other non-groundbased programming.
It’s mostly in their choice of documentaries that one groans in disgust.