Scary Stuff That Makes You Jump.com » report http://www.scarystuffthatmakesyoujump.com Fun with Nefarious Intention Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:18:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Video game watchdog shuts down, victim of economy (AP) http://www.scarystuffthatmakesyoujump.com/video-game-watchdog-shuts-down-victim-of-economy-ap/ http://www.scarystuffthatmakesyoujump.com/video-game-watchdog-shuts-down-victim-of-economy-ap/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:06:15 +0000 admin http://www.scarystuffthatmakesyoujump.com/video-game-watchdog-shuts-down-victim-of-economy-ap/ David Walsh, founder and director of the National Institute on Media and the Family, talks with a reporter about the institute closing because of a lack of funding, at his office in Minneapolis Minn., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. After years of crusading for safe video games and television shows for children, the institute will close Dec. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP – David Walsh said when he was assembling his first report card on video game violence 13 years ago, children were attacking on-screen monsters or aliens with imaginary chain saws and guns.

“When I saw kids as young as 8, 9 years old literally doing facial contortions as they killed and dismembered people, it was pretty shocking. And I think what happened is a lot of other people got shocked as well,” Walsh recalls. “I don’t think we want our kids’ culture defined by killing, mayhem and dismemberment as entertainment.

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