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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Time To Slam Trump Again

I just saw a new low for the mainstream media campaign against President Trump.  YahooNews, never much of a reliable source but a mainstream media outlet nevertheless, put out a story Under the headline, "Trump Wrong About Video Games and Violence".  The story starts out by quoting a psychology professor at a second rate university, Stetson University in Florida.  The prof says that "There is very clearly no evidence to suggest that violent video games or violent movies or violent television contribute to violent crime." Get that?  It's not that there's little evidence of a link; there's no evidence at all that even "suggests" a link.  Yahoo then goes on to state that Trump's plan is to speak to video game companies about the subject this week and then Yahoo goes back to the opinionated professor to state that such a meeting is just a "blatant political move".

By this point in the article, few people will read any further.  That's where Yahoo makes clear that what it put forth at the start is nonsense.

The Yahoo article states, "The American Psychological Association’s official stance on video game and media violence as it relates to real-world violence is that playing video games can lead to increased aggression, but that there is insufficient evidence to form a link between gaming and violence."  They also quote the dim-witted professor who says that his statements represent the "consensus" of a majority of people in the field.  Think about that.  In two statements we go from there being absolutely no proof to suggest any link between video games and violent behavior to the American Psychological Association saying that there is a link to aggression and the games but insufficient evidence to form a link to violence.  That doesn't mean there's no evidence; it means the question is still under study.  Even the prof tells us that there are others in the field who disagree with him.

So what do we have?  There are some experts who see a link between video games and violence.  That's clear from the article.  YahooNews, however, portrays the story as if the facts show that there cannot be and is not any link of that sort.  That's just more Fake News from Yahoo.

I had hoped that once Yahoo was taken over by Verizon, there would be some responsible adult who would tone down some of the more blatant BS being pumped out by the YahooNews "reporters".  I was wrong.  Nothing has changed.

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