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Fox blames another death on video games

Deathsythe | February 22, 2008 | News | Company Misc 
Fox news blames video gamers for leaving a 5-month old baby in a car for 8 days.

I personally highly doubt they were playing videogames for 8 days straight. There were probably many other factors involved, but, FOX just zeros in on the real issue at hand.
While the headline for the actual story reads "Parents of Baby Left Alone in Car Seat for 8 Days Face Murder Charges", Fox News decided to go with the much classier "Video Gamers Leave Baby To Die" on the front page of their website today to direct eyes towards the story of a Peoria Illinois couple who left their 5-month-old baby strapped to a carseat in a crib for 8 days while they were home "playing video games, watching TV, feeding and caring for themselves." A truly horrible crime, but why the video gamer hate? As tipster Orrin points out, why not "TV Watchers Leave Baby To Die?" Simple. Because irresponsible video gamers are big news.

Check out some of the other headlines I have found for this story across the web:

Parents of 5-month-old face first-degree murder charges - Illinois Daily Herald
Parents Charged with Murder - Central Illinois Proud
Parents face first-degree murder in death of baby bound last week - WTHI News

Not one other news outlet I can find focused on the gaming like Fox News did. Are they holding a grudge over the Mass Effect debacle or what? As more and more people start playing video games, will every headline start to read like this? "Man Who Played Video Games Robs Bank." "Video Gamer Dies In Car Crash." This is getting pretty damn ridiculous. Is there a video game angle? Sure. Is it the only angle? Of course not. How about "Irresponsible Young Parents Leave Baby To Die"? Bah. I'm going to go punch something and blame it on gaming.
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  • 0 thumbs!
    Dine_Agoti | February 22, 2008
    Bloody hell. They just don't know when to quit, do they? You'd think they'd give it rest, but apparently the more we try to fight it the more B.S. they spew.
  • 0 thumbs!
    kik36 | February 22, 2008
    I didn't find that headline on their page, so maybe they changed it? "Parents Who Left Baby in Car Seat for 8 Days Charged With Murder" was what I found on their main page.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Sonic Flash | February 22, 2008
    Has Fox news ever produced any thing that hasn't made the internet laugh at them? Do they KNOW that they're ridiculous and the laughing stock of credible journals of opinion?
    • 0 thumbs!
      Ameer | February 23, 2008
      Unfortunately as shown by the 2000 presidential debacle, they have the power to twist anything.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Zero and X | February 22, 2008
    No......way.....fox news.... wow......
  • 0 thumbs!
    Stitch | February 22, 2008
    How can they forget a baby for 8 days?
    And blaming it on videogames?
    This is ridiculous, there is something more going on here if they left a baby for 8 days in a car.
    They just can't go to bed without thinking of the baby, they did this on purpose, this has nothing to do with a videogame, I'm sure of it.
    • 0 thumbs!
      kik36 | February 22, 2008
      Oddly enough, they did much worse than leave it in the car......it was in a car seat, left in the baby's crib for 8 days!!! So the baby was in the car the whole time probably screaming it's head off!! So these bastards were beyond sick.......there is no blame to put on anything other than on the parents!!!
  • 0 thumbs!
    ali3n | February 22, 2008
    This is just desperate...
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    Play ISDF | February 22, 2008
    This is just *bleep*ing sad. Fox, have all your employee's jump off a bridge. Blame us if you must, but least we wouldn't have to listen to your pathetic shit anymore.
  • 0 thumbs!
    BANDITO ATTACK | February 23, 2008
    what does a baby and a pizza hut box have in common?

    they both been in my car for 8 days =O


    but you know its so easy to just get into a 'thing' and play videogames for more than an entire week straight. i do it every day.
  • 1 thumbs!
    black doom | February 23, 2008
    It sickens me less that they blame computer games than it does that they could twist this... this which is already so sick and twisted.
  • 1 thumbs!
    DragoniteBallZ | February 24, 2008
    They are the number one rated cable news network in America right now. Meaning more idiots here in America dig their sensationalistic bullshit than the other networks. And Ameer is right. They unfortunately do have a lot more media-related power when it comes to weighing down the side they pick on the political spectrum.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Sei | February 24, 2008
    They won't give up, but this shows that they are desperate for trying to get a fake point across.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Catboy14 | February 24, 2008
    This isn't about video games, it's about the parents being irresponsible. I bet people's views would be different if they were making model airplanes for a week instead of playing video games.

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