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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Mar 8, 2018, 10:55 PM Mar 2018

Trump's Meeting With Video Game Industry Stacked With Anti-Game Critics

Thursday's meeting between President Donald Trump and the video game industry includes just four industry members and a number of outspoken critics of the medium.

The list, released to the press today and posted by CNN's Jake Tapper, doesn't have a single scientist or researcher in the field of video games and violence, but does include retired Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society and Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression and the Psychology of Killing. It also includes the founder of Media Research Center Brent Bozell and Melissa Henson, a spokesperson for the Parents Television Council. All are outspoken critics of violence and video games.

The video game industry members attending are the heads of the ESA and ESRB as well as Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, and Robert Altman, chairman of ZeniMax Media. Members of Congress in attendance will include Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl), Representative Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) and Representative Martha Roby (R-Al)

The meeting will be to "discuss violent video-game exposure and the correlation to aggression and desensitization in children," according to the White House description of the 2 p.m. ET meeting. This meeting will be the first of many with industry leaders to discuss this important issue, according to the White House.

https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/trumps-meeting-with-game-industry-stacked-with-game-critics-w517593?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=030818_11

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