They throw everything out of proportion and try to make things seem worse than they really aren't.
"It has been a week since conservative writer Kevin McCullough attacked Mass Effect for its mature content. He has since apologized in the face of extensive criticism. However, that hasn't stopped FOX News from picking up and spinning the story for its own purposes: the Mass Effect debacle has now hit mainstream media.
Using a similar title to McCullough's article, the segment "'Se'Xbox? New Video Game Shows Full Digital Nudity and Sex" featured a debate between talk show host Cooper Lawrence and Spike TV's Geoff Keighley earlier this week. Though Keighley tried valiantly to defend the game, he was outnumbered.
Lawrence and the other panel critics cited a study "out of the University of Maryland right now that says that boys that play video games cannot tell the difference between what they're seeing in the video game and the real world." This was combined with an exaggerated and falsified representation of the actual in-game content in order to suggest that the game should have shipped with an Adults Only rating. "Who can argue, possibly, that Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas is a good thing. It's not. And I'm definitely not going to let Mass Effect in my house," one panelist concluded.
GamePolitics has a transcript of the conversation as well as a video of the panel. Though it's frustrating to watch, it's not really anything new for gamers. The mass media often targets games as the source of violence in society, and now it seems that rampant sexual deviance is another one of the many wrongs that our industry perpetuates."
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