Fox News Ignorantly Attacks NEA for Classifying Games as Art
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[img]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/56/56951.jpg[/img][release]In a display of manipulative journalism from beginning to end, Fox News attempts to debate whether or not artistic videogames should receive federal funding.
Recently, the U.S. federally-funded National Endowment for the Arts [url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109835-Games-Now-Legally-Considered-an-Art-Form-in-the-USA]changed its criteria[/url] for what it considered art, adding "interactive games." This means that a videogame developer can now apply for a grant to develop a not-for-proft artistic or educational game that "enhances the public good" in accordance with the NEA's guidelines, just as filmmakers and other content producers can. Fox News took the opportunity to jump on the change, developing a short segment that attacks the federal government for funding videogames.
To its credit, Fox News brought in editor-in-chief of Icrontic Brian Ambrozy, who actually knew what he was talking about. Fox pitted him against radio talk-show host Neal Asbury, whose intention was obviously to ignore the facts and spout rhetoric.
Not to its credit, the very first line of the Fox News segment set a poor tone that would continue through to the end. "Should the videogame Call of Duty get federal funding," the host asks, while showing violent clips of the game. Anyone that had done their basic research on the NEA's guidelines would know that Call of Duty isn't anywhere remotely close to getting federal funding. This line is either ignorantly or intentionally manipulative, which in either case is extremely disappointing coming from one of the nation's most popular news outlets.
Ambrozy does his best to express this fact, but is somewhat overshadowed by the loud, outspoken words of Asbury. "Hey, maybe we should start giving taxpayer money to ping-pong players," Asbury says, not seeming to understand that a ping-pong player and a videogame developer are two entirely different professions. He adds that organizations like the NEA are "stretching the limits of wastefulness," becoming a "perversion" of what they were originally intended to be, all in regards to the changed criteria.
Ambrozy comes back pointing out that videogames and entertainment in general generate billions of dollars per year, and that an NEA-funded videogame could perhaps inspire the population to become involved in artistic or technical professions related to videogame development. Asbury replies with more wasteful spending quotes, saying: "President Obama wants to raise my taxes to pay for videogames?"
Nowhere is it ever acknowledged that Call of Duty and games like it are not going to receive taxpayer dollars. The intent of the segment seems as if it was meant to take a dig at the current leaders of the U.S. government using factually incorrect information and an over-animated critic, rather than a look at what's actually occurring in reality.
The worst part is that these sorts of segments, though less than 5 minutes long, affect people. Someone is probably in an argument right now about how the government is using taxpayer dollars to fund Call of Duty, and that simply isn't the case. Not every game is art, but interactive media can absolutely be developed in an educational or artistic way, and that's all the NEA is recognizing. It's sad that media outlets are still using the general ignorance of the public about the broad spectrum that videogames now encompass for their own ends.
The Fox News segment can be viewed [url=http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e80_1305997846]here[/url][/release][url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/110273-Fox-News-Ignorantly-Attacks-NEA-for-Classifying-Games-as-Art[/url]
Seriously can't Fox news be done for this? Isn't there a journalism standards body?
I lost a brain cell or two just from reading this.
If fox news gets any dumber it's going to rip a hole in the universe.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;29989452]Seriously can't Fox news be done for this? Isn't there a journalism standards body?[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, that would be "unconstitutional."
When I thought they couldn't get any dumber.
It's Fox guys. What do you expect.
Yeah, let's put our tax dollars/pounds into the maintenance of military aeroplanes that we barely need!
That popping sound you hear are the braincells exploding across the world as people read this article.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;29989452]Seriously can't Fox news be done for this? Isn't there a journalism standards body?[/QUOTE]
Nope, Fox News is legally allowed to lie.
the fat dude has the fault too, he didn't make his point and stuttered a lot, so they "pwned" him bad. I feel sorry for him.
Everytime a stupid news comes from fox news I remember this video, Just President Chávez calling a fox news reporter what he is:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vNOBBB5FgY[/media]
Fox is officially an entertainment organization, so they're not legally required to report any truth at all
[QUOTE=barttool;29990032]the fat dude has the fault too, he didn't make his point and stuttered a lot, so they "pwned" him bad. I feel sorry for him.
Everytime a stupid news comes from fox news I remember this video, Just President Chávez calling a fox news reporter what he is:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vNOBBB5FgY[/media][/QUOTE]
Too bad Fox News was actually right to ask those questions to Hugo.
[QUOTE=Nerts;29990007]Nope, Fox News is legally allowed to lie.[/QUOTE]
Just waiting for that lawsuit to come by... any day now.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;29990119]Too bad Fox News was actually right to ask those questions to Hugo.[/QUOTE]
Chávez usually responds that way to anyone who comes with that type of questions so it's not surprise to me. It's not like Bush didn't kill anyone.
tbh I don't think any 'art' should get federal funding
why the fuck are you spending my money on shitty little statues nobody cares about instead of using it for something good
[editline]22nd May 2011[/editline]
like the multi-trillion debt
[QUOTE=Android phone;29990229]tbh I don't think any 'art' should get federal funding
why the fuck are you spending my money on shitty little statues nobody cares about instead of using it for something good
[editline]22nd May 2011[/editline]
like the multi-trillion debt[/QUOTE]
The point the fat guy tried to make is that games are not getting funding for beign art, but for having the possibility to be highly educational, so you give federal funding to indie developers that create educational and interactive games (good games, not lame games) and teach kids with that. I think it's worth it.
but then it's a tool of education and I'm all for that
what I do NOT want to see my tax money being spent on are ugly 'abstract' pieces of shit
or [url=http://www.coloradopeakpolitics.com/diary/86/harry-reid-attacks-meanspirited-republicans-for-cutting-cowboy-poetry-funding]cowboy poetry[/url]
I'd ignore them, but what scares me is that some people believe their shit.
"What? Games can be called art now?"
"TERRORISM SIMULATORS AGAINST AMERICA GET FEDERAL FUNDING AND ARE CALLED ART. More at 11"
Good god what the fuck is this? This doesn't even makes sense... Who said CoD would be getting any funding?
Because thats what he's saying.
This is so fucking twisted that even Kotick must be laughing and rolling in his pile of money saying this is more retarded then his fans.
[QUOTE=Player 1.1;29989800]It's Fox guys. What do you expect.[/QUOTE]
I didn't expect Fox News to "debate" art, that's for sure.
Oh FOX News... you should team up with the german government, you both will love each other :3
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;29989452]Seriously can't Fox news be done for this? Isn't there a journalism standards body?[/QUOTE]
There was one, but the republicans destroyed it when Nixon was in power.
:allears:
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;29989452]Seriously can't Fox news be done for this? Isn't there a journalism standards body?[/QUOTE]
I think FOX is categorized as propaganda, not journalism.
[QUOTE=Marden;29990443]I'd ignore them, but what scares me is that some people believe their shit.[/QUOTE]
What scares me is that a "news agency" as manipulative and biased as Fox News is allowed to exist in an otherwise developed country.
God damn Fox, all it means by being recognized as art is that it will be protected as ART, not funded by the gov. Look at almost all artists today, not a single one is funded by the government.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;29989452]Seriously can't Fox news be done for this? Isn't there a journalism standards body?[/QUOTE]
Journalism is only legally regulated in parts of Europe and in the most extreme cases in America. We're a self-regulating concept, the agencies we fall under regulate us just as much as we regulate ourselves. For example, I wrote a piece on a house fire near me for the local newspaper, and I made the mistake of adding hearsay as to what happened. Stupid mistake, but the newspaper came out and told me I was being bias and sensationalist, I had to edit it out. But I learned from that and my next story, I avoided it. There are different levels of regulation of bias. But when you have all the levels bias, it doesn't work. That's Fox News' issue. In all honesty, it's about being a good journalist. Fox news is not a good journalism institution, it's sensationalist.
The idea is for the people to regulate their media, but they don't. Critical thinking is dead, and many sensationalist news outlets like Fox take advantage of that.
Now for standard journalism bodies? Europe has a few that kinda seem like standards. They're not too powerful though. But a lot of European Journalism is better in terms of bias then elsewhere in the world. Save Al Jazzera
How about we pull Fox's funding instead.
[QUOTE=Android phone;29990229]tbh I don't think any 'art' should get federal funding
why the fuck are you spending my money on shitty little statues nobody cares about instead of using it for something good
[editline]22nd May 2011[/editline]
like the multi-trillion debt[/QUOTE]
can somebody justify spending millions every year on something that benefits literally nobody and doesn't contribute anything besides more hipster shit? why the hell are we spending tax money on art, seriously, someone tell me
[QUOTE=Swilly;29989682]Unfortunately, that would be "unconstitutional."[/QUOTE]
No Journalist I know that does his job well, will tell you Fox news is press. They simply don't fall under the constitution.
[editline]22nd May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Android phone;29991159]can somebody justify spending millions every year on something that benefits literally nobody and doesn't contribute anything besides more hipster shit? why the hell are we spending tax money on art, seriously, someone tell me[/QUOTE]
I agree, we should screw over the very foundation of our humanity for something like a new Fighter plane!
[editline]22nd May 2011[/editline]
Android, you have the soul of an android phone. If you can't recognise art as being anything other then what we are as [I]humans [/I]you should go back to your video games and ignore society. And try not to talk.
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I agree, we should screw over the very foundation of our humanity for something like a new Fighter plane![/QUOTE]
humanity was founded on this?
[img]http://howcanpeoplebesostupid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/piss_christ.jpg[/img]
that piece is called the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ]'piss christ'[/url]
it was funded in part by the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts]national endowment for the arts,[/url] which pours tax money into "art"
can you come up with one single reason why I should have my money forcefully taken away from me and sent towards this
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