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Fox News Headline - Video Gamers Leave Baby To Die

kotaku.com — In a blatant show of attention-grabbing, Fox News blames video games for child's death, above irresponsible parenting.

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  • gavinrobinson, on 02/22/2008, -20/+328fox news sucks.
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  • Garcian, on 02/22/2008, -11/+191"Fox News leaves credible journalism to DIE."
  • DonJohnTom, on 02/22/2008, -8/+132inaccurate, video gamers are not capable of having children
  • oblivionatm, on 02/22/2008, -19/+142Bill O' Reilly and all those other bastards need to shut up and stop pretending to be journalists.
  • chickentonight, on 02/22/2008, -9/+100Foreign atheist gamers support Obama and leave baby to die.
  • dBLiSS, on 02/22/2008, -6/+61should say "Bad people Leave baby to die" Qualifying it with gamers is intentionally divisive. It's similar to saying "white people leave baby to die" to imply all white people are bad parents.
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    But seriously, you're right. It is getting annoying. Cut that ***** out.
  • 4LeggedtriPod, on 02/22/2008, -8/+50I trust Colbert more than FOX News.
  • Christbait, on 02/22/2008, -9/+47Fox News are corrupt, I blame video games!
  • thomas, on 02/22/2008, -3/+38I know you where trying to be funny but you failed.
  • Akaji, on 02/22/2008, -3/+30I'm curious, how much is Hillary and/or McCain paying you?
    *And geeze, I just looked at your history... the last 12 comments have been about your Digg submission, with 8 of those being shameless spams of that link. Please die in a fire.
  • tendonut, on 02/22/2008, -2/+27In other news, Digg user stole Fox headline before even published, more at 11.
  • techlyc, on 02/22/2008, -9/+34Fox News has become a ridiculous conservative version of the Onion.
    Does ANYONE take them seriously anymore?
  • theOster, on 02/22/2008, -11/+36only if you take it as a news source.
  • whatthefu, on 02/22/2008, -4/+28In all honesty, this headline is so ridiculous it made me laugh.
  • active1x0, on 02/22/2008, -4/+27Oh no!! Gamers got negative, biased coverage from the mainstream media??? Break out the torches...
  • WoollyMittens, on 02/22/2008, -2/+23"Popular German leader takes full control, gives people more space to live, gets rid of foreign immigrants and tries to unify Europe, but is then attacked by terrorists from multiple nations." - The Second World War as seen through whatever dope Fox journalists are on.
  • Grimdotdotdot, on 02/22/2008, -0/+19It's bad enough that some people are allowed to use text.
  • jmhyer51, on 02/22/2008, -1/+20That idea is horrible in so many ways, I just won't even bother..... you realize if there was such a certification, the people doing the certifying could be biased themselves. Yeah, that among other things.
  • techweenie1, on 02/22/2008, -1/+18I found the Fox News Article severely lacking myself here are two other takes on the story that give you more insight on how sick these two ***** really are...not sugar coated like the fox story.

    http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=68675
    http://www.week.com/news/local/15816102.html
  • ronjon13, on 02/22/2008, -12/+28he is not serious, its a joke. you fail.
  • Rev0lver, on 02/22/2008, -11/+27"Bill O'Reilly is a blubbering vagina" - Maddox.
  • TruEKuma, on 02/22/2008, -6/+21Right because all video gamers are crappy parents who cant get off a damn couch for 10 minutes to care for something they made. Fox news is a joke and a mockery of real journalism, from this to the crap the spewed about mass effect weeks ago. Fox news needs to be classified in the same category as tabloids and other crap filled people and things.
  • SlimFastForYou, on 02/22/2008, -8/+23The real story is that these baby killers WERE CELL PHONE USERS! Yes, the headline really should have read "Cell Phone Users Leave Baby To Die". Cell phone users are just such horrible people, I mean nowadays so many shootings and rampages are done AFTER someone gets a cell phone! Wal-Mart should stop selling phones just like they stopped selling A/O games. Clearly if you are against banning cell phones, you don't think about the children or support our men in uniform and are a liberal slob. Yeah, screw them and their anti-video game agenda. They misleadingly used the circumstantial fact that the people who did this also played video games.
  • serpentor, on 02/22/2008, -1/+16I hope both "parents" end up in prison for life and get beaten to a bloody pulp every single day of their sentence. Ignore the video game *****, this was a heinous & horrible crime...
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  • mungk, on 02/22/2008, -0/+13They've now changed the headline to read, "Parents of Baby Left Alone in Car Seat for 8 Days Face Murder Charges".
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331732,00.html
  • SlimFastForYou, on 02/22/2008, -4/+17OK I admit I didn't RTFA before commenting. Now that I have, I admit the article didn't mention anything about cell phone use but did about watching television!! I can no longer edit my post, but I'd like to change all instances of cell phone to "watching TV".

    The real story is that these baby killers WERE TELEVISION VIEWERS! Yes, the headline really should have read "Couch Potatoes Watching Fox Leave Baby To Die". TV watching people are just such brainwashed people, I mean nowadays so many shootings and rampages are done AFTER someone has watched a television! TV is inappropriate and Wal-Mart should stop selling TVs just like they stopped selling A/O games. Clearly if you are against banning televisions, you don't think about the children or support our men in uniform and are a liberal slob. Yeah, screw them and their anti-video game agenda. They misleadingly used the circumstantial fact that the people who did this also played video games.
  • Dgen_X, on 02/22/2008, -3/+15Especially that one video game where you're required to slant news reports, and hire sexy weathergirls.
  • Akaji, on 02/22/2008, -9/+21Truth. It's almost as funny as (A) Daily Show or The Colbert Report if you treat it as the same kind of faux news show.
  • minox, on 02/22/2008, -1/+12It's petty to argue about a stupid headline when this story is so sad. Just read the story.
  • GhostyBoy, on 02/22/2008, -1/+12Video Games: Use hand eye co-ordination and your intelligence to play a wide variety of genres of games that are interactive and have been created by cutting edge graphic artists and programmers. They usually have no agenda, and if there is it is more often an artistic expression of an idea.

    Fox News: Sit on your couch and watch television. There is absolutely nothing interactive, you are simply fed a constant stream of stupidity all slanted the exact same way and further encouraging the ignorance of it's viewers. The producers use any cheap trick to make a buck and clearly sell misinformation that supports their corporate sponsors.

    Video games at their worst = Fox news at their best...a waste of time.
  • jezzball, on 02/22/2008, -2/+12it's like trainspotting with videogames?
  • muniak, on 02/22/2008, -9/+18BABALITY
  • GhostyBoy, on 02/22/2008, -7/+16Fox news doesn't want you spending your time playing video games because that's less time that you s[pend watching television and being indoctrinated by their stupid propaganda.
  • Mejari, on 02/22/2008, -3/+12The difference is we don't pretend to be journalists, just ***** on the internet.
  • arthurdent3, on 02/22/2008, -1/+9Not much different than other media outlets always blaming SUV's for accidents and not the person driving. I don't know how many times I have read a story titled similar to the following: "SUV kills teen". Where when you read the story you learn that the Driver in the SUV was drunk and killed a teen in another vehicle.
    How about CNN and its bias against guns in their stories. No different than Faux News. Each news agency is bias somewhere but for some reason Faux News has something against gamers.
    I gave up on Faux News over the Ron Paul issues but I still have no love for the other outlets that suck for their own reasons.
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  • inactive, on 02/22/2008, -0/+8Good copypasta
  • Snyz, on 02/22/2008, -0/+7I just don't understand people like this, anyone who would so deliberately leave their own child to die like that must be pretty ***** up.
  • internetcoward, on 02/22/2008, -4/+11its like reefer madness, soon 'legalize it' will mean video games.
  • Tyrghast, on 02/22/2008, -2/+9I do believe picard would be doubly disappointed
  • sk11, on 02/22/2008, -3/+10You just broke my ironimeter, dammit!
  • kupa, on 02/22/2008, -0/+6What the ***** was wrong with these people?
  • gan811101, on 02/22/2008, -0/+6Poor baby...
  • BlinkBoy, on 02/22/2008, -0/+6Bill O'Reilly doesn't claim to be a journalist. He is a commentator.
  • 471776, on 02/22/2008, -3/+9Now they have something even better to scare you with. Better than Islam. Better than videogames. The ultimate terror.

    ISLAMOGAMING

    Am I making this up? I really wish I was.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213027,00.html
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194416,00.html
  • yoris, on 02/22/2008, -3/+9While i agree with your comment, it is slowly starting to dawn on me that comments on digg are increasingly evolving towards oneliners and cliches. Some of the most dugg comments i've seen here are lines like "bush sux" or "fox sux", with zero argumentative power and even less eloquence. Does anyone know any sites where we can read sentiments like "fox news sucks", but wrapped in sentences which are actually useable to convey those ideas to an real-life audience?
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