Mass Effect Controversy - What has happened to my media?

[Sniffs]

there's also a certian subculture that has had this done to them...and some of the reporters are coming back from "sneak ins", stunned that it wasn't the giant Orgy thy thought it was

 

[87chevy]

Well thats pretty horrible 'journalism' right there. But i'm not surprised. Main stream Media has sucked for a long time. But, there was one recent event that threw away the credibility of anyone who had anything to do with it: Anna Nicole Smiths death.

That stupid bitch didn't do a fracking thing noteworthy or to be remembered yet her death was "breaking news" on EVERY major 'News' network. you've got to be effing kidding me.

 

[Tornado]

Sometimes satire can bring attention to an issue often ignored. Just look at how many young people base their political opinions on The Daily Show.

But I would say that there is a major difference between the two. Shows made for political satire usually stop at pointing out contrasts between what politicians say and what they do (or things along those lines). G4 takes things, points out the contrasts, then presents it in a way that totally demeans the very thing they are trying to support.
I guess I am trying to say that G4 doing a major news-type piece on this would just make it seem all the more obvious that gamers are childish fools that need things done for them.

 

[FoolKiller]

But I would say that there is a major difference between the two. Shows made for political satire usually stop at pointing out contrasts between what politicians say and what they do (or things along those lines). G4 takes things, points out the contrasts, then presents it in a way that totally demeans the very thing they are trying to support.
I guess I am trying to say that G4 doing a major news-type piece on this would just make it seem all the more obvious that gamers are childish fools that need things done for them.

G$ and major news don't go together in the same sentence.

But I didn't mean it to be presented as an actual news report, but as a blatant parody with the tables turned.

 

[Tornado]

But I didn't mean it to be presented as an actual news report, but as a blatant parody with the tables turned.

I don't read satire and parody as the same thing. And G4 doesn't seem to me like a network that could pull off a satire to save there life.
To put it into movie speak (because I am at a loss for words), we would need an Airplane!, and they would give us a Scary Movie 4.

 

[FoolKiller]

I don't read satire and parody as the same thing. And G4 doesn't seem to me like a network that could pull off a satire to save there life.
To put it into movie speak (because I am at a loss for words), we would need an Airplane!, and they would give us a Scary Movie 4.

Well, I just said G4 because it is the only dedicated gaming network.