2010-03-30, 10:40 PM
It's not like I disagree that this industry could probably use some regulation in Japan. I totally sympathize with the pissed off Women's Rights groups. Sure they presented it fine. I don't think there was any need to present it to the public at large on CNN, not that I care enough to stop them. I just get a kick out of news organizations that present sexual stories in this style. South Park actually hit on the subject pretty well in the season opener.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/267341 It's just feigned care about a subject that's being used to grab viewers and attention. And like you said, I can easily accept that this is the state of news. I mean, when I see something titled "Rapelay" I'm all over seeing what it's about. They've got my attention. I find it funny though. That's an incredibly counterproductive way to prevent people from knowing about it.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=rapelay Search interest in the game was steadily declining until Amazon made a fuss over it.
Another example I saw recently was an article about porn addiction in teens - which linked directly to 3 youtube-style porn sites. And local news has been doing this for years. "Tonight at 11: SHOCK! SCANDAL! SEX!" And it's just some story about a strip club in a tiff with a landlord or local neighborhood. Relatively innocuous in actuality. An unimportant story on a slow news day. Or "Tonight at 11: the footage we couldn't show you from X story you just saw"
The soccer moms thing was a poor attempt at humor. My apologies. And now that I look at the sentence before it, I went and set a tone I didn't want for this thread.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/267341 It's just feigned care about a subject that's being used to grab viewers and attention. And like you said, I can easily accept that this is the state of news. I mean, when I see something titled "Rapelay" I'm all over seeing what it's about. They've got my attention. I find it funny though. That's an incredibly counterproductive way to prevent people from knowing about it.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=rapelay Search interest in the game was steadily declining until Amazon made a fuss over it.
Another example I saw recently was an article about porn addiction in teens - which linked directly to 3 youtube-style porn sites. And local news has been doing this for years. "Tonight at 11: SHOCK! SCANDAL! SEX!" And it's just some story about a strip club in a tiff with a landlord or local neighborhood. Relatively innocuous in actuality. An unimportant story on a slow news day. Or "Tonight at 11: the footage we couldn't show you from X story you just saw"
The soccer moms thing was a poor attempt at humor. My apologies. And now that I look at the sentence before it, I went and set a tone I didn't want for this thread.