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family values and the value of video games Post date  07.27.2005, 5:27 PM

posted by ben vershbow

Steven "Everything Bad Is Good For You" Johnson has an amusing open letter to Hillary Clinton in today's LA Times, urging the senator not to blind herself to the virtues of video games in her quest to earn moral values cred with 2008 swing voters.

Consider this one fascinating trend among teenagers: They're spending less time watching professional sports and more time simulating those sports on Xbox or PlayStation. Now, which activity challenges the mind more -- sitting around rooting for the Packers, or managing an entire football franchise through a season of "Madden 2005": calling plays, setting lineups, trading players and negotiating contracts? Which challenges the mind more -- zoning out to the lives of fictional characters on a televised soap opera, or actively managing the lives of dozens of virtual characters in a game such as "The Sims"?

Posted by ben vershbow on July 27, 2005 5:27 PM
tags: Games

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