How does this discredit games?

and why have you spong took a very skeptic look at it shouldnt you really be unbias or are you really like other media outlets?

arent you just prooving what they say?

it sounds like a common sense talking about what they have found, and they simply are saying that this evidence that may or may not of been found is immediatly ignored or attempts made to disproove it because it

1. Affects Business and Business doesnt want that.
and
2. takes away out personal guilty conscience if the information were to be true

you know spong i like to believe the games industry has morals and isnt selfish but in reality it isnt that simple and what gets me is how you expect everyone to believe what you say "self tosh" is right and that spongs information is somehow more correct than theirs?

the author of this article is very cynical and its like i was reading a fox article with some sort of agenda into making the reader immediatly believe what the author wants!

and the stupid comment at the bottom with the suggestion of books to read to the kids, jebuss whats wrong with kids having less screen time and more reading time with a wealth of written language and storys and history i can safely say i enjoy reading far more than video games!

to mis quote stephen fry

" i can imagine a modern day without Internet, without Cars or Video games, but i cannot imagine a modern day without the written language"

the world wont stop if the nintendo is turned off.

[EDIT] You just prooved how hard her job is!

Media psychos, eh. She's hailing from a church based organisation, so her view is already branded by the crucifix of the church of righteous justice. She's said as much when she claims violent games are being sold to kids, deleberately, when the truth is very different.

She's missed the part about once copies are sold to retailers, they have no control over how the games are sold. While moaning minnies like her have ranted about this part, how easily that forget that games are rated, and kids in general are always growing and maturing.

She's probably a buddy agent of JT, anyway. Its always about protecting the children apparently, but its okay to teach kids discrimiatioon against homosexuals etc in the church.

Sure, kids can switch off consoles sometimes, and in a perfect world, they would more. Our 21st century world has other things to do, all of subjective to choice in the end. If said kids went and done drugs instead, who would they blame then?

Like the saying says, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Adults shouldn't be affected by games. I will accept that children and teenagers may be succeptable to negative influence from games....And this is the argument it always boils down to for me - KIDS SHOULDNT BE PLAYING AGE INNAPROPRIATE GAMES!

"As an institution of the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the College holds the conviction that wholeness of personality, true vocation, and the most useful service to God and the world are best discerned from the perspective of Christian faith."

No need to read further is there to be honest.

Come on Spong, I'm getting a bit tired of your constant mockery of anyone who even begins to suggest that videogames can have a negative effect. This is not objective journalism.