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From: "Zach Collins {Siege}" <zcollins@seidata.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:36:43 -0500 (EST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Michael Tresca wrote:
> Okay, so I started watching the Video Game Awards (VGA).
> http://www.spiketv.com/shows/vga/player.jhtml
> Then I turned it off after the first half hour. There were too
> many cheerleaders cheering, porn stars teasing, rappers mumbling,
> and David Spade walking around like a homeless person on stage.
> Good lord in Heaven, what the hell is going on here? It's like
> the Man Show threw up on the Morton Downey Jr. Show.
As far as I'm concerned, that's the majority of SpikeTV's
programming.
> I'm curious. Because what really concerns me is that these awards
> are accurately representing the current and future player base.
I think your players are right to be at least disgusted. I
personally believe that media organizations are run by executives
out of touch with any popular culture they didn't create themselves;
so we're dealing with a view from the previous generation looking
through E3-colored glasses at booth babes while thinking of geeky
social failures and semi-punk trend followers. Plus televised
awards shows are always kind of silly.
--
Zach Collins
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