Major ‘gratz to Jose Antonio Vargas (left) of the Washington Post, who was part of the WaPo team that recently scored a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of last year’s Virginia Tech massacre. As reported by the Mountain View Voice, Vargas used Facebook to locate a witness to the shootings on the V-Tech campus. Of the award, Vargas said: I won this as part of a team, that’s important. I didn’t cure cancer… I owe my Pulitzer to Facebook reporting, I’ve covered everything from video game culture to HIV and AIDS... lire la suite
Major ‘gratz to Jose Antonio Vargas (left) of the Washington Post, who was part of the WaPo team that recently scored a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of last year’s Virginia Tech massacre. I won this as part of a team, that’s important. I didn’t cure cancer... I owe my Pulitzer to Facebook reporting, I’ve covered everything from video game culture to HIV and AIDS in Washington to national presidential campaigns. Sometimes I wonder if I’m way too lucky. It hasn’t quite literally sunk in yet. GP: I met Jose at E3 2006, where we talked for a while over coffee in a Starbucks a few blocks from the L.A. Convention Center. It was apparent that he had the requisites for a good reporter. Jose is personable, yet not shy about asking the tough questions. At the time, he was working on what is probably the best profile of then-ESA boss Doug Lowenstein that I’ve ever read. After that initial meeting, he also picked my brain (such as it is) for the occasional quote.
Last month the National Institute on Media & the Family issued its annual Video Game Report Card, chiding the video game industry for what it termed “an ominous backslide on multiple fronts.” So we’ve heard from game industry types and politicians, but what about parents? This entry was posted on Friday, January 4th, 2008 at 5:30 am and is filed under Controversial Games, Games & Culture, Video Game Critics, Game Consumer News, Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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The ESA, which represents North American video game publishers, has released its 2008 Annual Report. In reading the ESA report, we were most struck by the sheer volume of legislative efforts directed at video games on both the state and federal level. Many of these we were aware of and reported on here at GamePolitics. A few others flew under the media radar. Here's the state list: · Colorado: The ESA persuaded the Denver transit company not to ban M-rated game ads on buses · Connecticut: tax incentives were approved for video game production · Florida: approved financial incentives for game development · Indiana: game legislation died in committee · Massachusetts: game legislation is stalled in committee · Mississippi: game legislation died in committee · Missouri: game legislation died in committee · New Jersey: game legislation died in committee · New York: 2007 bills passed Assembly & Senate, but a joint version was not finalized (in 2008, however, NY adopted a less restrictive video game law) · North Carolina: video game legislation carried over into 2008 session · Oregon: video game legislation stuck in committee · Puerto Rico: video game legislation carried over into 2008 session · Texas: tax incentives passed for game devs (although ESA reportfailsto mention content restrictions on such funding) · Utah: video game legislation died in committee as did a resolution urging the state A.G. to file amicus briefs in other states where the game biz was challenging legislation · Wisconsin: a 1% game tax is under consideration On the federal level, the ESA cites four bills introduced in both the House and Senate. Also mentioned are the Annual Video Game Report Card issued in Washington, D.C.by the National Institute on Media and the Family as well as presidential candidate Mitt Romney's "ocean of filth" TV spot decrying mature content in games.
With that backdrop, the New York Times looks ata dozenprominent women, one ofwhom might become the first woman president some day. Of the twelve, four have some history with video games: · Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D): Sebelius(left) backed an ill-fated proposal to legislate video games in 2006, then made the GamePolitics hypocrite list when she backed her son's creation of Don't Drop the Soap, a GTA-like board game which he sold by mail order from the Governor's official residence. You know, the one paid for by the taxpayers... · Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D): Along with longtime video game critic Sen. Joe Lieberman, Klobuchar flanked Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family last November as Walshchastised the video game industry forwhat he termed an ominous backslide inNIMF's 2007 Annual Video Game Report Card. · Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D): Madigan's office defended Illinois' 2005 video game law against the video game industry's constitutional challenge. She lost. · Meg Whitman, former CEO of Ebay (R): We have no idea what her views on video game issues are, but her former company, Ebay sure solda lot of video game stuffduring her watch. I mean, where else are you gonna get an Atari 2600?
Two years ago, two of the Washington Post's political reporters urged the paper to start a separate political website. The paper turned them down, and those two guys—John Harris and Jim Vandehei—left the Post and launched Politico.com. Now, the Post has decided it does want to launch a separate political site. But! There was a SLIGHT PROBLEM.
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