Friday, November 04, 2005

News Limited Doubts Own Reporting

Interesting story on News Limited's web site today: Women find computer games 'big turn-on'.

Despite the double entendre nature of the headline the story reports:

THREE out of four Australian households play computer or video games and 60 per cent of players are women.

According to a survey, the average Australian computer or video game enthusiast is 24-years-old.
I'm a late bloomer - I only started on computer games at the age of 34 with Nick's encouragement.

Neither, it would appear that:

...only young male loners liked video games and they were "not just for kids".
But an editor of the news.com web site begs to disagree and does it in the pointer which I've captured here: Dubious: Women find computer games 'big turn-on'.

Could it be that Sigrid Kirk, Editor-In-Chief is sexist?

The more serious issue is, of course, that if we see such blatant bias and editorialising in such an inconsequential story, what must go on in the 'bigger' stories?

-- Nora

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