Newspaper Searches for Those Turned to a "Life of Crime" by Video Games
I'm wondering just how real this is, but on a casting site for "online talent" there appears to be an advertisement searching for people pushed into crime by video games.
The advertisement reads:
A national newspaper wants your story and will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person.Since this is a casting site, it makes one wonder if they are asking for factual or fictitious stories. After all it says paid "role." Of course, there are various tabloids that might be willing to pay for something like this.
Write a few lines about how computer games turned you to crime and if it's something we like, we'll call you straight back.
Payment details: paid role
Created: 27 March 2008
Applications accepted for at least another month
Application criteria: Males & Females aged 0 to 60 from UK
My question is: does downloading games (piracy) count as a life of crime?
1 comments:
It seems that since the media hasn't been able to prove their constant assertions that gaming is to blame for all the evils in the world (it used to be rock-and-roll, didn't it?), they're willing to pay to get the kind of stories that will support their claims, whether they're true or not. Whatever happened to real journalism, where writers actually researched the facts instead of inventing them?
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