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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