Not for a living, but for the media
The hardest thing is to argue with the press and those who unconditionally believe her. Imagine – having fulfilled public duty by washing dishes and covering the bed, I closely close the door to completely indulge in the eradication of evil in the next “Dyabel”. And here outraged voices, the roar of furniture and the screech of the cat, which was given the tail, announce the occurrence of the next round of the information war. Beloved spouse, with the support of heavy artillery in the person of the mother -in -law, is approaching me with languid eyes, menacingly waving a bright printed publication. And I already know in advance what is there: some bitter-journalist issued another opus from the series “The boy played in Tekken and killed eight special forces with his bare hands ".
This means only one thing – if you do not immediately stand up for the defense of Tekken, GTA, Doom, World of Warcraft and their brothers, in the near future, classes to eradicate evil will have to be postponed.
Let's look at several cases who excited the printed and online media, and find out whether everything was in them just as journalists served us.
The first case is: "" Mother sued Sony Online Entertainment, guilty of the suicide of her son ".
[[Bullet]] Sean Wallo did not like colleagues. “He had a strange sense of humor,” they say.
Well, this is quite a classic. Shanwn Woolley, 21 years old, suffered from bouts of epilepsy, was treated for depression with a schizoid bias, had not worked for a long time and was supposedly unprofitably virtually in love with. Even one flower from this bouquet would have enough problems for many to start thinking what is better – a rope or tablet. Against this background, hobby Everquest In the list of causes of suicide, it is hopelessly weaved in the tail. Alas, the epilepsy and depression cannot be sued. But on the company that Sean's money was flowing into, why not?
It is noteworthy, a few months after this incident in CNN they suddenly remembered him again, and some media, without understanding, published notes from the category “Another Everquest Fan Caught Suicide”. Thus, the poor Sean Wally, thanks to journalists, died twice.
The second case: "" 13-year-old Chinese girl died of exhaustion, spending several days to World of Warcraft. Her friends arranged virtual funerals in her game ".
[[Bullet]] Apparently, this is the first message about the death of Snowly. We pay attention to the pronoun "TA" in the story of the player.
But this is a very interesting case! Because if you rummage through all surviving sources, an unchanged (and therefore more or less truthful) detail will remain only the fact of virtual funeral. Everything else … A teenager with a nickname Snowly From the text to the text changes the floor and, in the range from 13 to 28 years, age. The time of the game is thirty hours without a break, then a few days. Let us turn to the primary source of these heartbreaking publications – a Chinese article about two dead players, which can only be opened today through the cache. Interestingly, Nick Snowly is accompanied by a hieroglyph-month-like, in Chinese meaning "he". However, no other data about the player are reported: the family did not want to publicize, even the real name has not lit up anywhere. And no one talks about a multi -vessel incessive game – only at the end they advise everyone not to drink, not smoke, move more and “not play the night for the end”. So what happened to Snowly? He just complained that he felt tired, and died a few days later. The connection at the level of "our cat was lost, and then the neighbors made repairs".
The same article talks about another dead guy. He was just twenty -eight years old, and it is quite possible that some media simply “glued” them with Snowly, giving rise to a kind of “universal victim of computer games”. This guy suffered for four years with malignant lymphoma and died after several days in a coma (not at the computer, in the hospital!). Here you can’t only get a killer game: he played Wow, but Thompson is clear that a serious illness in order limits the ways to communicate and feel his demand. Maybe that's why the journalists did not pay special Shiny Joker Casino attention to him? He died and died ..
And where did the girl of thirteen years come from then? Well, just as interesting!
► Virtual funerals have become in WOW "Fashionable Flay". But the players rarely die, so you have to bury hamsters and fish. As a result, guilds have appeared, entertaining the expulsion of such funeral processions.
The third case: "" Stepfather, furious stepson on a computer, shot him with a friend ".
This is a reference example of the "work" of the once glorious order -bearing newspaper! The text posted on the website of the publication has already been subjected to alteration several times, but never completely got rid of blunders and ambiguities (like a “girlfriend of a shot computer” in the header). Here you will not even have to conduct an investigation, read a note carefully enough. A twenty -five -year -old loafer sat on the neck of a working stepfather, and even regularly knocked out his mother to expel the drinking husband. Another attempt at a “DIY Divorce” ended in a deplorable. And what does the computer and "shooters" have to do with it? Well, the guy had a computer, and the stepfather's gun had a gun, after all, it means something!
Case fourth: "" The son killed his father because of the computer game "Gothic".
Another informational occasion that journalists cheated from article to article. In early versions of wine, it was assigned to the old Arcade Golden Ax, where the hero was operating with a huge ax. And the same ax cut the sleeping parent with the same ax. Everything looked folding, but then Golden Axe turned into a Gothic for some reason, and the murder gun into a sledgehammer.
[[Bullet]] The neighbor was most amazed by the words of the killer boy Yaroslav, said over his father's lifeless body: “Now I am in the house of the main!"
Yes, the case is out of the ordinary, and it seems like to get to the bottom and really has nothing to do with. But I am involuntarily remembered similar. The Australian teenager lay, watched TV, then got up, shot his father and continued to watch TV. His brother went, became convinced that his father died, and went to sleep. Another teenager loved to listen to music at night, for which he was scolded by his mother and father. Once in the house they turned off the light, the guy decided that it was the machinations of his parents, and killed them. Another guy stabbed the girl, jealizing her to the interlocutor on the social network. However, something devastated articles about the dangers of music, TV and the psyche of social networks on the horizon cannot be seen. If a person is crazy, then what does the games have to do with it?
The fifth case: "" A long passion for games that show cruelty can lead to damage to the brain ".
Impressive? U, how! “And what are your evidence?" – as the film bandit said to the Russian policeman Schwarzenegger. And this, it turns out, Dr. Chow Yuan-Hua from the department of psychiatry of the main veteran hospital of Taibay conducted research on thirty young people and found that those who play cruel games for a long time, reduced blood flow in the cortical shares of the brain. You know, it seems to me that some sections of my brain would definitely suffer if I had to play cruel games in the psychiatry department under the supervision of Dr. Chow Yuan-Hua. But what influence do games about bunnies and squirrels have? And the many hours of participation in the Network Holivar? In addition, other doctors argue that the brain tolerates a slight decrease in blood flow, so talk about damage … there are not enough grounds. Well, it turns out, Chinese joined the British scientists?
[[Bullet]] Games is a slow death? Very slow, judging by the Englishwoman Kit Cornell.
In about the same spirit, hundreds of sensational publications were concocted about how someone played something, and then-horror-uzhas! No, I do not argue, excess games are harmful – like an excess of anything, including sports. Here we are talking about completely different. About professionalism.
When accents are shifted for the sake of a loud title, uncomfortable circumstances are pushed into the shadow, unverified facts are taken out and hasty conclusions are drawn, even break the spears in a fierce dispute. I would like to put a hand on his shoulder with such a journalist, look into the eyes and say in a good voice: “I got out of the profession”.
We warn, the author’s opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the editorial office! Or may coincide.
Mneni
Oleg Chimda, editor of Gamery.ru "
Not just graduated from the journalism department
Late evening, outside – rain. In the editor’s office, someone is methodically beat off with rods. And the journalist, who was poisoned by pale vodka at the Pirozhov festival in the village of Bolshoi Khikeino, frantically leafs through the news of the news agencies, hugging a galvanized basin. There the pipe broke out, someone was robbed here … Boring! The number it's time to take the print, and also a whole strip empty. All that the journalist dreams of is to come home, to eat this filthy doshirak and quietly cry in a pillow for an unfulfilled dream to become the new Hunter Thompson.
An exhausted colleague is taken out of the editor’s office, another comes in his place, therefore – for execution. Looking at his watch in complete despair, our journalist decides to resort to secret journalistic technique and opens the bookmark with a list of foreign -language tabloids. And here it has happened! Information reason found! Two familiar words, “teenager” and “died”, and next to the third, less familiar, “VideoGame”. Video games? The journalist thoughtfully scratches in the back of the head, trying to remember at least one video game, then drives the text into the “Google transmission”, lights up to hold back the gadfly, and begins to knock on the keys. There is not enough data? It doesn’t matter! After all, you can always google similar topics, deftly shuffle the facts, squeeze a bit of “analytics” into the text, and then completely … fry, adding a red word.
Having finally completed a note, the journalist with a sense of the debt sends it to the editor and leans back in the chair. Tomorrow morning he will have to write about corrugated board and roofing sandwich panels, and then about innovations in the field of veterinary medicine. And now – home, home ..