Tivo Alert! CBS Evening News w/Katie Couric Covering Video Games This Week

They touched on it again this morning on Boston's local CBS news, specifically the part that 97% play games, and they're more politically inclined, likely to give to charity, blah blah. But then, the two were like:

"Well, i guess that means all of them, right?"
"I suppose it depends on the game."
"Yeah, it's not true if it's... Vice City, or those games where you beat up people."

Something like that. I just facepalmed there. You 'beat up' people in a lot of games.

Lulwut girls? Like girls only like that kind of video game? Like it would appeal to girls more then males?

It'd be nice if they mentioned that the violent crime rate dropped again, but I wont hold my breath. You would expect Couric and CBS News (with its leftist liberal slant ) to bash violent video games. But we'll see.

I'm so curious of one of these days we will see a hardcore adults game with emotional and political issues shown. I just don't think that people out their know that there are a lot of games that exist that try to say something. Not saying this show is bad. It's talking about games that kids play afterall, but eventually I would love to see some serious discussion on adult games.

I have a nasty feeling this will end up devolving into Fox News' "Se"Xbox scandal II

I just hope I'm wrong. >.<

It's a pity that the media doesn't even seem to care (or... um... you know, acknowledge) that adults also play video games.  Many of us who played games as kids are still playing them, and we do, in fact outnumber the teen market last I checked the statistics.

I fail to see how this is biased.  They seem to want to talk about teenagers and popular games anybody would enjoy.  I think you are just scared from the time Katie Couric made that Manhunt 2 comment.

"Like it or not, 97% of teenagers play videogames."

Woah, now, why wouldn't we like it? Well, at least they're letting us know ahead of time the story will be biased and not news.

//It's educational and appealing to girls and families. //

So we're to assume that they think guys would rather play something violent and mindless? Signs of ignorance has already shown.

//Like it or not, 97% of teenagers play videogames.//

Wow, high percentage numbers and not one mention of the area they got it from. 97% of what, the town, the county, the state, the country, the world? Sounds like a set-up for the old excuse that games cause people to kill, seeing as how they can scare the crap out of the uninformed by saying 97% of the teens they meet or see will knife or gun them because they're raging psychopaths.

....Yeah, this ain't going to end well.