{"id":5809,"date":"2022-05-24T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/pushing-buttons-why-linking-real-world-violence-to-video-games-is-a-dangerous-distraction\/"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:37:44","slug":"pushing-buttons-why-linking-real-world-violence-to-video-games-is-a-dangerous-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/pushing-buttons-why-linking-real-world-violence-to-video-games-is-a-dangerous-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Why linking real-world violence to video games is a dangerous distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Tragic shootings in the US have resurrected the disproven theory games turn people into killers. Why does this myth persist?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember how, in the wake of yet more awful shootings in the US this month, Fox News decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/news\/fox-news-gun-violence-video-games\">blame video games<\/a> rather than, you know, the almost total absence of meaningful gun control? Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/may\/17\/pushing-buttons-fifa-ea-sports-fc\">how I said last week<\/a> that the video-games-cause-violence \u201cargument\u201d was so mendacious and nakedly manipulative that I wasn\u2019t going to dignify it with a response?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/may\/24\/pushing-buttons-violent-video-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bbcae2235c5ff1618f38c604748d71c640b510c0\/434_11_3027_1816\/master\/3027.png?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=439636114c33f69e14cfbfcb01b35e22\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: Why linking real-world violence to video games is a dangerous distraction\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Tragic shootings in the US have resurrected the disproven theory games turn people into killers. Why does this myth persist?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<br \/>\nRemember how, in the wake of yet more awful shootings in the US this month, Fox News decided to blame video games rather than, you know, the almost total absence of meaningful gun control? Remember how I said last week that the video-games-cause-violence \u201cargument\u201d was so mendacious and nakedly manipulative that I wasn\u2019t going to dignify it with a response? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Tragic shootings in the US have resurrected the disproven theory games turn people into killers. Why does this myth persist? Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/pushing-buttons-why-linking-real-world-violence-to-video-games-is-a-dangerous-distraction\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: Why linking real-world violence to video games is a dangerous distraction<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}