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Newspaper Forced to Reprint After Blaming GTA for London Protests

Posted on Tuesday, August 9 @ 06:19:10 Eastern by


Pressure from media, fans, and likely one nasty phone call from Rockstar has forced The London Evening Standard to reprint its top story and remove the following suggestion that Grand Theft Auto had something to do with the rampaging London protests: "CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS TEN, INSPIRED BY VIDEO GAME, AMONG THE LOOTERS". Now it reads: "CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS TEN HUNTED BY POLICE AFTER RIOTS ACROSS CITY".

The original opinion piece in the newspaper quoted a constable connecting video games to the rioting youth (nearly all of the arrests made due to the protest have been of people 21 or younger):

Go home, get a takeaway and watch anything that happens on TV... These are bad people who did this. Kids out of control. When I was young it was all Pacman and board games. Now they're playing Grand Theft Auto and want to live it for themselves.

Sounds like a lot of rubbish to me.

I could go into the many, not-video-game-related-at-all reasons for the protests - the highly questionable police shooting of the 29-year-old father of four Mark Duggan, the bailouts to the banks, terribly unemployment, the $130 billion cut to public spending through 2015, the feeling that the police are prejudiced, the tripling of tuition fees for some students, the public-sector pensions being cut, opportunistic looters feeding the fire - so I'm thankful that the newspaper had enough sense to rethink the causes for its city's chaos.
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 7:40 am
    Wonderful post Nick. But really shouldn’t we ban all video games, just because there might be even the slightest of a chance, that they may have influenced one or two rioters.
    0 1
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 7:52 am
    I blame the UK for punishing officers that club chavs, also I blame the rap.
    0 1
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 8:28 am
    I blame Canada.
    1 2
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 8:29 am
    Or it could be that dominatrix on the news paper. Wtf?
    0 1
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 8:46 am
    You mean Lady GaGa?
    0 1
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 11:24 am
    Evidently so. I didn't realize it was Gaga
    0 1
  • Stickyellowsock
    Stickyellowsock
    Joined: Oct 2009
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 8:45 am
    I trust news sources that encourage me to "Get my kink on"
    0 3
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 8:46 am
    You would.
    0 1
  • econnick
    econnick
    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 9:49 am
    You better not "get your kink on" with my children and the fact that they don't exist is irrelevant, you stay away regardless.
    0 3
  • Eyebrowsbv31
    Eyebrowsbv31
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 9:17 am
    What I love about this is that it's become an excuse to just burn ****, steal, and cause trouble for local businesses. This dumb **** kids will be paying for it in the short and long term. Idiocy.
    0 1
  • MarkyBee
    MarkyBee
    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 8:44 am
    Unfortunately in the meantime, tax payers like myself will be paying for the damage, not the kid's who've nicked a £20 toaster from argos to satisfy their boredom.
    0 1
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 10:09 am
    Forgive me for going so far off topic, but I just love the English language as it is spoken and written in the UK.
    0 1
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 9:52 am
    Good. A small step in the right direction, but it's still a big issue. Not until people first blame the parents of juvenile delinquents, instead of video games, are we in good shape. Until then, world is dumb.
    0 3
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
    Nominated for The People Speak.
    0 2
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
    I blame Celine Dion, someone please come up with a theory on how we can link her to the terrible things of the world today.
    0 1
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
    You just did.
    0 1

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