Andrew's Minute Paper 3/13

There was something in class today that I didn't end up saying. While numerous people seemed dissatisfied with the approach taken by the other teacher, with the specific complaint that the media she presented appeared to be biased, I think that an important factor was being ignored. These videos from GNN were not standalone real news pieces, but instead reactions to the biases of the mainstream news. Thus, in a sense, they didn't show both sides for the same reason one doesn't show the opposition's side in a debate, it has already been shown. It seemed to me that these were not meant to be objective so much as a rebuttal or counter argument to the mainstream coverage of a given issue.
One aspect of the video/news story shown in class today that I found particularly interesting was the clear connection to a current issue facing the video game industry. As comes up so often someone commits a violent crime and happens to own a video game, someone brings up the idea that video games are brainwashing people, which this potential future showed a less violent representation of.