The Sun gets Called Out on its BS

CCC Says: "So, the other day the UK tabloid “The Sun” took a swing at video games with the infuriatingly sensationalist headline “Gaming as Addictive as Heroin”, which nearly made want to metaphorically flip my own desk.

As part of an “investigation”, the article in question (which is behind a bloody paywall) claims that the United Kingdom “is in the grip of a gaming addiction which poses as big a health risk as alcohol and drug abuse.” Even though addiction in itself is a very serious matter, it just seems all too easy to point the finger at videogames for having addictive properties rather than point the finger at people with addictive tendencies."

[poor_cus_of_games]

That paper is nothing but a sad little comic book.

[GarrusVakarian]

It is. Look at the way they draw the readers focus towards the words GAMING and HEROIN by putting only those words in obnoxious capitals, trying to create a sub-concious association with the two things.

Pathetic scum bags. No doubt the vast majority of the people who type this garbage are people who have zero experience actually playing videogames.

Food for thought: Why don't they ever conduct interviews with us, the gamers?

[360ICE]

Also notice how they create a conscious connection between gaming and heroine by actually writing that "Gaming [is] as addictive as heroin".

Any subliminal aspects to that headline are surely less important.

Studies are also very often conducted at gamers, and I do see gamers being interviewed every now and then.

Not in The Sun, though. Which is to newspapers what toilet paper is to newspapers.

[Dark_king]

Replace the word marijuana with gaming in your head

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[tigertron]

That's insulting to sad little comic books.

Still, the Sun is good for one thing...page 3.

[2cents]

Tabloids will be tabloids.
Anyone who buys the Sun for anything more than sh1ts and giggles needs their heads checked.

low brow, fear mongering, unsubstantiated claims and lack of research are the foundations of this newspaper. Hmmm.. Reminds me of a certain gaming portal...

[sprinterboy]

Daily star and sun sport are the best, good laugh reading it at work though

[Beastforlifenoob]

Most heroin addicts die a fatal death due to their addiction. Whats the worst you can get from gaming? Eye strain?

[Dark_king]

Actually its death.People will sit until a blood clot forms then when they get up they can die.Though this is rare it has happened before.However you cant put the blame on the games , like all things that are enjoyable overdoing it is your own fault.

[Codewow]

You know what The Sun enjoys? All this attention. The more attention they get, the more money they earn on ad revenue.

[kingdip90]

I believe the sun is a Rupert Murdock property, the same guy who owns fox news. That's why they both spew the same kind of hate filled ridiculous nonsense about all manner of issues including video games.

[Ozmoses]

I believe Rupert Murdoch news agencies reach about 2 billion of the planets population...

I saw it on one of them zeitgeist movies...

he pretty much owns like over 50% of the worldwide news companies...

that's the sad part... we'll never know the god honest truth...

that's why people believe everything he says... because he OWNS the NEWS

Whatever the news tends to say... People tend to listen...

Subliminal Mind Control at it's best

From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

On 20 July 2005, News Corporation bought Intermix Media Inc., which held Myspace, Imagine Games Network and other social networking-themed websites, for $580 million USD, making Murdoch a major player in online media concerns.[94] In June 2011, it sold off Myspace for US$35 million.[95] On 11 September 2005, News Corporation announced that it would buy IGN Entertainment for $650 million (USD).[96]

HAHAHA Rupert Murdoch owns IGN.... HAHAHAHAHA

This is why we are doomed as a species...

People like this don't care for people like us.

[darksky]

Murdoch owns a tv empire so it is in his interest to put gaming in a bad light. After all gaming means watching less tv which would cause a loss in profits for the tv broadcasters.

[DeadRabbits]

Reading tabloid trash like the Sun is as adictive as crack on a hoes booty for the hammerheads that read it!

Each morning I see the same zombies walk out of newsagents with their heads buried in the papers, oblivious to where they are

[Ozmoses]

see that is a garbage argument...

video games are not injected into the bloodstream...

[mushroomwig]

The Sun getting called out is a weekly thing, nobody takes it seriously.

[RosweeSon]

For 30-40p a day what do you expect it's good for two things, sports pages and boobs, if your buying the paper expecting more out if it then really need to sort yourself out, this is the same paper that branded the 3DS the devils spawn, yet 12-18 months later it was the best console going.

[Soldierone]

People can and may laugh at the paper and push it off as nonsense, but I have one problem.

I see news stories like this all the time (not necessarily video game related) and I laugh at it. I go "how could anyone believe that BS?" Heck there were a few game ones that I thought were so terrible that I didn't even bother covering or "attacking."

Yet I go somewhere or talk to people and the story comes up.... and they BELIEVE IT. If it's a story about a product you use, place you go, or something you do they go "how do you trust it? Didn't you hear....." And I have to sit there and explain why it's wrong.

So yeah while we find it ignorant, it is worth spreading the papers logo everywhere and telling people it's wrong.

[diesoft]

Have you seen the steven spielberg photo that's going viral? People actually attacking him and believing that he killed a real dinosaur. Like he's actually just a poacher. Of dinosaurs.

There is a line of stupid you don't want to cross and just have to, at some point, realize that there will always be that line. Those are the sun's customers.

[diesoft]

These papers are great! Seriously, when you need something for your pets to throw up on or empty their bowels, nothing makes more sense than "the sun". I wish I could use them as public restrooms wherever I see them but stores keep banning me for that very same reason.

[Heisenburger]

Walter White *should have just gotten into game development, I suppose.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Lol okay then. If I didnt play games I'd probably do heroin for fun instead.

Well no, I wouldnt because Im not an idiot. But Id be alot more likely to drink or do drugs as Id have more money and more time - and I'd be bored.

[ThichQuangDuck]

I got excited when I saw gaming heroin. Chase the dragon fellow gamers. This is a sensationalist newspaper title and a sensationalist story by the sun to incite sensations angry, hatred, denial(what they will call facts that dispute their "research"). Don't stare at The Sun or you will go blind

[kingPoS]

The Sun does make do as a replacement for toilet paper . lol

Gateway MT6706 2008

[poor_cus_of_games]

Toilet paper is too good for it. Also that crappy daily star.

[bleedsoe9mm]

I don't know but if I don't get a great AAA games soon i'm going to chew off my fingers