Comments on: The Alan Titchmarsh Show On Videogames

By: loans for people with bad credit

loans for people with bad credit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:03:44 +0000

I agree. He deserves to get a medal for taking an unpopular stand.

By: tomx

tomx — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:09:56 +0000

I think parents should be responsible enough what their kids are into. But they should not be too protective.
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By: kromagg

kromagg — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:26:36 +0000

If there’s anything I took out of this, it’s that Tim Ingham fucking rocks.

By: Ewan McNaughton

Ewan McNaughton — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:48:01 +0000

The only guest with an argument which was in any way coherent and relevant was the young chap, I loved his point that the same violence in the same context can be seen in literature and film. Why should these games be any more addictive than this new breed of gore-porn, surely there wouldn’t be a saw10, or whatever we’re on now, if that was true. The boot in the middle has no idea what she’s on about. give us some pop culture references, rather than the popular close minded “I’m an angry mum, boo-hoo” stance.

Anyway, I’m angry.

And Titch: Stick to what you know eh? Rhododendrons and outlandish decking.

By: H

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:48:57 +0000

Got a reply back from OFCOM at the weekend, but it was basically telling me there were no issues with the regulations and it was all lovely and shiny and nice and I was a git. What can you do, eh?

By: T-Bone

T-Bone — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:35:07 +0000

@bill

That’s the Onion, a well known news parody site. It’s called satire, kiddo.

By: Emma Vieceli

Emma Vieceli — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:27:23 +0000

SO true ^_^

By: sacchi

sacchi — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:22:35 +0000

I have recently seen a clip of this show where the issue of video games and violence was discussed.

I would like to politely express my discontent with your show. There are many reasons for why I am disappointed with it. First of all, it is clear that there was not an intellectual debate presented but instead a biased discussion in which a professional journalist had to defend his position against 2 other guests, and the host of the show, Alan, who for some reason decided it was best to ask the video game journalist questions, instead of maintaining a neutral position and either asking no questions at all or asking both sides of the debate questions. I’m also mad at the fact that while you invited two guests to criticize video games, you only invited a single guest to defend them. Therefore, that’s why I claim that your show was biased 3 vs 1.

To make matters worse, the audience was clearly used in order to show video games as a negative problem that should be solved, with the audience clearly being controlled to only applaud when video games were being attacked. While I am sure that you have no control over the audience’s actions, since that would be foolish, I cannot but wonder how weird it is that for some reason, the audience only boo’ed when the journalist talked and applauded everyone else.

I cannot also but criticize your choice of guests against video games. Not only did Julie Peasgood and the other man have silly arguments to offer, such as video games promoting “hatred, violence and sexism” with no reference to other ways of media such as movies and other TV Shows, which clearly promote those values too, but they also avoided the journalist’s arguments regarding the absolute fact that children do not get their hands on violent video games unless bad parents buy them for them. It shows that your guests were nothing but hypocrites, decided to try to make a false point without actually debating and counter-attacking any of the journalist’s arguments for real.

Finally, I believe that you should either repeat the debate in a well-mannered, civil and fair way, or you should ask for apologies either on the Net or on your show itself. Criticizing the video game industry brings nothing but the public against it, which is bad for its economy. In case you did not know, the video game is a billion-making industry and many developers currently design games in Great Britain, games which are very successful worth wide that are both taxed and controlled by the government.

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By: Leonard Hatred

Leonard Hatred — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:38:25 +0000

I’ll happily let my son play videogames appropriate for children his age, but i don’t want him exposed to ITV’s programming.

By: Nickiepoo

Nickiepoo — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:12:24 +0000

Between this and GSB I quite like you.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:56:32 +0000

Another disgraceful tv representation of video games messing up kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTbYUd1jUc4&feature=fvw

By: darksiderob

darksiderob — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:33:35 +0000

Tim did a fantastic job of trying to illustrate the up-side of video games…but there’s really no point in trying to explain these things to people who categorically go out of there way to hate something they don’t play, understand, or interact with. The host didn’t even know there was a video game rating system in place to prevent kids from getting their hands on violent video games. I mean, that’s just not doing your homework…or not caring to be accurate in exchange for being provocative.

And the thing that is so insulting is that people don’t seem to get the idea that video games aimed at adults are made for adults…not for children. They don’t care about the video games that are out there for kids because it doesn’t help their cause of wiping video games from the map…because, you know, we all have to think, act, talk, and breathe alike.

The argument isn’t going to go away. And if it does…what ever overtakes video games years and years from now will receive the same treatment then that video games do now.