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Caliman73

(11,666 posts)
5. Worse than toothpaste.
Tue Jun 11, 2019, 07:35 PM
Jun 2019

It is a bit of apples to oranges but I get with Marshall is saying. My parents actually never said anything about "video games rotting your brain" to me. I played Atari, and spent time at the arcades, but playing video games was never a paramount activity for me. My oldest son played/plays video games as do my younger children. My wife and I try to go out of our way (as I did with my oldest) to make sure that some of the messaging behind video games did not promote unrealistic images about women, violence, etc...

The difference with Fox News is that the specific and sole purpose of Fox News is to alter the reality of its viewers. I mean video games have a message, they almost all and almost always do. You can argue that Grand Theft sends horrible messages about crime, women, etc... Studies have also shown that exposure to those messages can desensitize people to violence if they are particularly vulnerable. Again, the difference with Fox is that it is DESIGNED to indoctrinate viewers to reject any other source of information and to view the conservative viewpoint as the only valid viewpoint. The biggest danger about video games is that they can interfere with other types of activity like physical activities, academic activities (reading, math, science, etc...), and social activities like talking with people face to face, which are necessary to become well rounded people. The makers of Grand Theft Auto are not telling gamers that GTA is the ONLY game they should play and everything else is a conspiracy. That is what Fox does.

I would much rather have a toothpaste brained teen around the house than a completely brainwashed, delusional, person who only watches Fox.

If only up up down down left right left right b a start tymorial Jun 2019 #1
Their viewers are all Stepford wives and husbands. Funtatlaguy Jun 2019 #2
K&R. nt tblue37 Jun 2019 #3
Good one malaise Jun 2019 #4
Worse than toothpaste. Caliman73 Jun 2019 #5
I remember when Fox News first came on the scene Skittles Jun 2019 #7
They knew what they were doing. Caliman73 Jun 2019 #36
I have to say Skittles Jun 2019 #37
You are unfortunately correct. They cannot accept that progress and change are inevitable. Caliman73 Jun 2019 #38
It's not just change - they refuse to see the world as it is. LisaM Jun 2019 #59
Well said! Black and white it is, gobbling up spoon-fed nonsense and lies about liberals. machoneman Jun 2019 #48
I also remember when Fox 5 DC first came on the scene Maggiemayhem Jun 2019 #60
So no young people watch Fox? murielm99 Jun 2019 #6
And all parents watch Fox? wasupaloopa Jun 2019 #8
NPR & PBS are about as right-wing as I go. Crowman2009 Jun 2019 #28
they don't watch cable news or even linear TV to begin with pstokely Jun 2019 #44
No. Act_of_Reparation Jun 2019 #46
Not many -nt Bradical79 Jun 2019 #47
Of course they do Maggiemayhem Jun 2019 #61
Doh! JohnnyRingo Jun 2019 #9
IMO, Faux News is the venue of the grandparents RainCaster Jun 2019 #10
If only you were correct. GulfCoast66 Jun 2019 #21
SHIT! I thought this was over and done with. I'm 60... RainCaster Jun 2019 #31
Florida has a unique problem no one realizes. GulfCoast66 Jun 2019 #34
No, you don't. I have relatives well short of retirement who disprove that theory. JHB Jun 2019 #26
LOL Scurrilous Jun 2019 #11
Depends how old your parents are. My mom and dad are FDR Democrats. YOHABLO Jun 2019 #12
OMG wryter2000 Jun 2019 #13
I've been playing video games just about since they were first invented. Stonepounder Jun 2019 #14
Both my parents infinite_wisdom Jun 2019 #15
Rupert Murdoch has done more damage to America than Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS sop Jun 2019 #53
FOX and hate radio have turned friends and family members into strangers..."addicted to anger"... FailureToCommunicate Jun 2019 #16
"FOX viewers have turned friends and family members into strangers..."addicted to anger"..." pazzyanne Jun 2019 #18
A good read ck4829 Jun 2019 #25
The article really explains so well what we sense is happening to those unfortunate FailureToCommunicate Jun 2019 #63
Minty fresh? snort Jun 2019 #17
All joshing aside, very insightful. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2019 #19
Parents could set time limits or take away the games ProudLib72 Jun 2019 #20
Certain people when they visit their Fox addicted parents Maggiemayhem Jun 2019 #62
i had a friend of mine who was a regular fan of flush rimshod. AllaN01Bear Jun 2019 #22
K&R. n/t Different Drummer Jun 2019 #23
K&R ck4829 Jun 2019 #24
Ahem ... umm, some parents. KPN Jun 2019 #27
My Dad died in 1997 but he used to watch Rush in the afternoons. kimbutgar Jun 2019 #29
a rightwing coworker quit Rush when Rush trashed Chelsea Clinton Skittles Jun 2019 #32
Exactly kimbutgar Jun 2019 #35
Murdoch is worse than any Terrorist. Dawson Leery Jun 2019 #30
Fox Aussie105 Jun 2019 #33
..👍🏼"Just that feeling of comfort, " uponit7771 Jun 2019 #41
I love the fact that RW TV is replete with con artist religious types..... machoneman Jun 2019 #50
Excellent observation. n/t Laelth Jun 2019 #39
K&R uponit7771 Jun 2019 #40
Toothpaste is a healthy, useful product TruckFump Jun 2019 #42
Fox new needs to be outlawed as hate speech... Joe941 Jun 2019 #43
Agreed! Raster Jun 2019 #45
Good observation. Pepsidog Jun 2019 #49
My parents, and my wife's parents, are still the Social Justice Democrats they've always been. hunter Jun 2019 #51
So true... BlueJac Jun 2019 #52
A shame too. There are far more important things to do then have the TV tell you blah...blah... SWBTATTReg Jun 2019 #54
Lucky Me DownriverDem Jun 2019 #55
Rush Limbaugh was there first FakeNoose Jun 2019 #56
So true Ohioboy Jun 2019 #57
Not to my parents it didn't! DFW Jun 2019 #58
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