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April 19th, 2007
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Within hours of the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech, activist attorney Jack Thompson appeared on a Fox News segment, and proceeded to connect the actions of the at-the-time unidentified Virginia Tech gunman to video games. What an interesting media sound-scape we live in! He is identified in the Fox News segment as a “School Shootings Expert.”
Brian Crecente of Kotakuwrote an interesting if overzealous analysis of Thompson’s words in an article titled “Dissecting Jack’s Lies,” which you can read here, if you’re so inclined. The conclusion that Crecente reaches at the end is that “you can say anything on TV and not have it fact-checked as long as you say it quickly, when TV needs someone to fill time and it’s a good sound bite.” Disheartening to be sure, but not especially surprising.
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