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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyTwo videos, two interview styles, and two completely different ways an uninformed audience can interpret Modern Warfare 2. On MSNBC, well spoken Kotaku Editor, Stephen Totilo (the same guy who got beat by Soulja Boy on Geometry Wars) came on and set the record straight about the most anticipated game of the year. His interview went so much better than Slashgamer's John Christensen's Fox News appearance.Fox News Interview after the Break
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Did you know that there's a murderer in your house ... right now? It's sitting there on your coffee table, in your Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or PC. It's name is Modern Warfare 2, and it lets your eight-year-old child become a terrorist and kill people. Our pals at Fox & Friends got together for a "fair and balanced" discussion about the game's controversial airport scene, with the show's host Steve Doocy inviting Common Sense Media's Jim Steyer and /gamer's Jon Christensen into the fray. Unsurprisingly, Steyer makes the oft-cited connection between violent games and real-life violence. And when Doocy gives Christensen the final word, he cobbles together an anecdote about his friend the retail manager not selling copies of Modern Warfare 2 to underage consumers, which is met with, "You bring a game into a house, nothing to stop an eight-year-old kid from becoming a terrorist and shooting people" from Doocy. So far, we haven't received any reports of the game sneaking its way into people's homes or making parents blind and unaware of their children's actions, but we'll keep our ears to the ground.Continue reading Fox & Friends gets 'fair and balanced' with Modern Warfare 2 discussionFox & Friends gets 'fair and balanced' with Modern Warfare 2 discussion originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Fox News held a fair and balanced debate over Modern Warfare 2, the popular new FPS that lets you play a CIA operative tasked with helping Russian agents clear terrorists out of an airport. In the game, it turns out that the Russian had turned on you and forced you to kill innocents in the [...]

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Fox News held a fair and balanced debate over Modern Warfare 2, the popular new FPS that lets you play a CIA operative tasked with helping Russian agents clear terrorists out of an airport. In the game, it turns out that the Russian had turned on you and forced you to kill innocents in the [...]
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