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Jun. 9th, 2007 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrphCathedral row over video war game - currently the top story on the BBC news site
Manchester cathedral appears relatively briefly, as part of a larger sequence set in Manchester. As for the "virtual shoot-out in the cathedral's nave in which hundreds of enemies are killed", it fails to mention that they're mostly a swarm of dog-sized alien animals...
Sony may well have messed up by featuring the cathedral without permission, but the reporting is also putting a "gun crime" spin on this that doesn't really fit the game itself.
Manchester cathedral appears relatively briefly, as part of a larger sequence set in Manchester. As for the "virtual shoot-out in the cathedral's nave in which hundreds of enemies are killed", it fails to mention that they're mostly a swarm of dog-sized alien animals...
Sony may well have messed up by featuring the cathedral without permission, but the reporting is also putting a "gun crime" spin on this that doesn't really fit the game itself.
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Date: 2007-06-09 09:10 pm (UTC)Whilst it might be reasonable to air the Church's views - it being their Cathedral, after all - I'm more annoyed by "Mothers Against Violence" jumping on the bandwagon to push their fictional-violence-causes-violence agenda, and that the BBC promotes their point of view. Sure, interview the Church and Sony who are relevant to the story, but what's it got to do with them? If the BBC want to look at the violence/censorship debate, why does it only interview this random group, with no opposing point of view given?