Cross posted at The Smoking Room
Yet another reason why cable news is the sewer of media, as the editor of a gamers website gets lured into a supposed fluff interview on bottom-rated CNBC’s “Big Idea with Donny Deutsch” and then gets skewered:
It kicked off with Donny holding up a copy of Computer Games magazine declaring that there wasn’t a single game in there that wasn’t violent, and they then immediately cut to scenes of CJ stamping on a girl until she bled over the pavement in San Andreas. I was introduced as pretty much the bad guy who thinks this doesn’t have an effect on kids, and…well…things just deteriorated from there.
The show’s producers even booked a former student from Columbine High School for the segment…who wasn’t cooperative:
Incidentally, the student–who in fact wanted to defend violence in games and who had been promised that his “history with Columbine wouldn’t be beaten to death”–later complained to Davidson that “[t]hey actually edited the show’s content so my points weren’t let in.”
Read the editor’s full account here. Sadly, the outcry of this blatant setup piece will be muted because no one watches CNBC. If a talk show host maligns a guest and no one watches it, did it really happen?
I’m a tech journalist who’s making a TV show about a college newspaper.