Everywhere in the world, in every country, there’s bound to be at least one news outlet that’s just plain biased, petty, naive and crazy. In America, you could say this outlet is Fox News, which often appears to hang out on the right-wing, conservative side of the political spectrum and has a hissy fit whenever a new Grand Theft Auto is released. In the UK, there’s a wonderful newspaper called the Daily Mail, and it’s pretty much Fox News in the form of printed type.
The other day, the Mail decided to attack the Wii’s best-looking game in the pipeline, Mad World, and slated it because it shouldn’t be coming out on such a ‘family friendly’ console, almost looking to beat down on Nintendo for portraying their product in such a manner. For some glorious flaming of an ill-informed news outlet, hit the jump!
To give you a bit of backstory, the Daily Mail is a British ‘tabloid’ newspaper, ie: one that focuses on celebrity scandals and gossip while politics and “real news” takes a back seat. However, rather than make itself look like a typical tabloid, the Mail dresses itself up as a ‘quality’ newspaper, such as the Times. In other words, it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing: a scandalising idiot dressed in an Armani suit. Again, much like Fox News.
In the past they were quick to blame Manhunt for the murder of a 14-year-old teenager, claiming that his murderer owned the game and took inspiration from it. Later on, it was unearthed that the victim, not his killer, was the one who owned the game. They’ve also been very, very good at raining down on Grand Theft Auto releases a day or two after they’ve hit the shops with nothing but scandalized terror stories written up in such a way to make video games resemble the work of the devil.
Obviously, as we’re all sensible, right-minded people at Sarcastic Gamer, we can take this sort of scaremongering BS with a pinch of salt and with our tongues firmly lodged in our cheeks. Today then, we’re going to have a look at the Daily Mail’s superbly-written article on Mad World, and have a little giggle or two.
Ready then? Good. I present to you “The Dissection of a Daily Mail Article, or How Not To Write About Videogames”. It’s all waiting on page two.
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Yamster, the page 2 and 3 links in the article take you back to page one.
Awesome article.
Haha this is expected from The Daily Mail, “Racist, so you don’t have to be!”
They are utterly useless.
What’s the matter with Fox news being biased and conservative? All the other news outlets are biased and liberal. It’s not like the liberal ones are any better.
Haha, this IS just like the junk I laugh at on FOX News!
@boringsupreez: I’m pretty sure they like to boast of their unbiased coverage once in a while, so sheer irony makes them look stupid.
lol! Hilarious article!
@ Yamster – you’re quite right about the supposed ‘unbiased’ nature of the mail. Absolutely incredible article by the way – the sad thing is that some peple believe this rubbish
“This game sounds very unsavoury” hahaha the article is funny, oh and this one “The only other colour is red for all the blood.”
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lol so true, I can usually tell I’ve been reading the mail beacuse I get paranoid about the doomed economy and that damn labour goverment letting all them imigrants in.
I don’t think there is any such thing as an unbiased source of information personally, not even the dictionary but the mail is about as biased as it gets
@nigelcrombie: Hello. How are you? What brings you to the comments section?
I cant think of a single newspaper that has factual stories, more rather stories based on fact. You should read the Sun! At least there is something to look at on page 3….
Yamster, I can never decide whether you like the Wii or not; but no matter your opinion, you’re an awesome guy and you deserve free hugs.
I’m not creepy. At all.