Video Game Hard Knocks Pain NFL

wired news ^ | 12 31 02 | Brad King

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The debate over violence in video games may never be settled. Most recently it's become an issue for the National Football League.

Game developers make a lot of money on sports titles like Electronic Arts' John Madden NFL Football series -- which is second on the list of top-selling games behind Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. All told, sports games accounted for 22 percent of all video game sales last year, making it the most lucrative genre for the second year in a row, outpacing action and racing titles, according to NPDFunworld research.

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Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), who announced on Dec. 19 that he would hold more hearings on the effects of violent video games on children

hmmm imagine that he held hearing in 2000 when he was running for vice prez and now in 3003 when he is running for president but nothing in 2001 or 2002 what a huge coincidence could it be that he is nothing more than a crass political whore wasting taxpayer money on goverment hearings where he is dragging people before him demanding they explain why they are exercising thier 1st amendment rights for his own political gain ?

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The reality is that a lot of Americans are either unwilling or unable to properly raise their children.

Hence, demagogues like Wrinkly Joe can easily rally the masses for an anti-video-game witch hunt and score a ton of cheap political points.

[Sparta]

Has LIEberman ever read the First Amendment? Tell where it gives him the right to tell video game manufacturers what they can put in their product.