What the hell has happened to the news? There was a time when it was full of well-researched journalism, but it’s now full of sensationalist scaremongering of the highest order.
This video is the perfect example, with an ill-researched scare piece about the dangers of online gaming. Apparently everyone is a pedo, and the Xbox should be rechristened the ‘Sexbox’. That’s you told.
We saw yesterday how the news has become dull and predictable. But this, if anything, is a worst crime being committed by the news channels – the misreporting of non-news which blows a small problem out of all proportion.
I’m sure there are some weirdos playing video games online to contact members of the opposite sex. But it’s a tiny minority. And it’s a tiny minority of those who are pedophiles looking to pick up underage partners.
Yet this report would have you believing everyone is a potential rapist. It also forgets to mention that you’re perfectly safe unless you decide to give the strange man or woman you’re talking to your full home address. Which most people, however young and naive, aren’t stupid enough to do.
