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G4 host Adama Sessler gives his opinion on the whole Fox News/Mass Effect imbroglio in this clip from a recent episode of X-Play. He presents the facts with much more aplomb and fairness than Fox did, but in the end turns the tables to give the network and author Cooper Lawrence a taste of their own medicine. Although Lawrence has since apologized for her missteps, it's still fun to watch Sessler take her and the dubious Fox News to task.
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7 responses // Mass stupidity

  • Oh come on...don't dump on FoxNews. They can't help it if they're the dumbest sheep journalist-wanna-be's on the tube. That's WHY they get hired there! With Murdoch at the helm, what did you expect?
    barkway
  • Ooooh.....I love this game. I new that those text windows were going somewhere. Honestly I am so glad that the sex scene is in there, though it spoiled it for me. I didn't know there was an explicit one. This is a very adult game. The entire point of the game is making tough adult choices. The storyline is FAR too complex for a younger teen to understand and a teen isn't going to get as much out of it as someone 18 or over. You realy have to play this game to give it justice.
    ocanada
  • WOW. I take back everything I've ever said about the G4 hosts not being that funny or whatever, this was amazing.
    RudyRudell
  • **Applauds.** Adam Sessler, you are my hero!
    lifestudentno83
  • http://kotaku.com/348187/ea-calls-fox-out-on-insulting-...
    I am a Sessler defender to the end. He's on G4 because he's interested in both games and politics. He has, in the past, alienated people by ranting to the point of conniption -- who hasn't! I just don't have a TV show! -- but this particular rant showed a lot of spark and passion.

    He's right about that EA letter, to which I've linked here. Go admire the tremendously reasonable, levelheaded letter Jeff Brown of Electronic Arts sent to Fox News, if you have a chance, but here are the crucial bits:

    "The resulting coverage was insulting to the men and women who spent years creating a game which is acclaimed by critics for its high creative standards. As video games continue to take audiences away from television, we expect to see more TV news stories warning parents about the corrupting influence of interactive entertainment. But this represents a new level of recklessness.

    [...]

    "This isn't a legal threat; it's an appeal to your sense of fairness. We're asking FNC to correct the record on Mass Effect."
    jennatar
  • Very well put.

    On a side note. Americas attitude towards nudity and swearing is in direct conflict with its attitude towards violence. The totally draconian practices of censoring "bad words" and "nudity", whilst not even letting adults decide for themselves whether they will watch it or not.

    There is nothing offensive about the human body, and there is nothing offensive with angry words directed at another person. What kind of ultra nanny state do you guys live in?

    Whist visiting on the summers in the US, I was shocked about the censorship. Not just the news and political censorship. But the censoring of media which any grown adult can handle. The "it protects children" excuse is bullshit. Any parent should be able to regulate what their child watches.

    Here in the UK you get a warning. (nudity, violence, language) And you just deal with it. If your offended turn it over, don't buy the game, don't watch it. Simple as. I really can't get my head around why on earth you (Us citizens) are herded, monitored, and controlled like good little sheep and still proclaim from on high, waving your irony like a badge of honor... "Land of the free". My ass, my dog has more freedom.
    Social_Fuzz
  • http://kotaku.com/349296/ea-vs-fox-lawrence-recants-mas...
    Cooper Lawrence admitted to the New York Times yesterday that, once she'd *seen* the sex scenes in Mass Effect, she wanted to recant everything she'd said about Mass Effect to Fox News. "I really regret saying that," she told the Times, "and now that I've seen the game and seen the sex scenes it's kind of a joke. Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it's like pornography. But it's not like pornography. I've seen episodes of 'Lost' that are more sexually explicit."

    The New York Times piece also outlines the entire backlash against Fox and Lawrence at *least* as fairly and succinctly as Sessler's video op/ed, but as always, you'll need a login and password to read it. You can get to the Times article via this Kotaku link.
    jennatar

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