{"id":395,"date":"2008-01-25T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2008-01-25\/parents-television-council-is-confused\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T14:57:35","slug":"parents-television-council-is-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/parents-television-council-is-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Television Council Is Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ptc-logo.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"ptc-logo.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>From Dennis McCauley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepolitics.com\">GamePolitics<\/a> (which is owned by the ECA, a pro videogame lobby) writes: &#8220;<em>Recent\u00a0word that the Entertainment Software Association would begin making political contributions on behalf of the video game industry brought a sharp response from watchdog group the Parents Television Council.<\/em><em> Within days of the ESA announcement, PTC president Tim Winter issued a statement essentially threatening that his organization would target any elected official who \u201ccashed a check\u201d from the ESA&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the American Beef Association weighed in on organic vegetables, the RIAA started complaining\u00a0 about movies, P<em>e<\/em>TA began attacking big tobacco, and the MPAA started lobbying against guns. Who knows what the NRA is doing at this point&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> The Parents Television Council (celebrating 10 years of sensationalistic idiocy) is really wading into the videogame argument like a drunken hippo. They seem to have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about when it comes to gaming, and worse they&#8217;re bringing their &#8220;culture war&#8221; to consoles and computers.\u00a0 Is this because you play games on a TV?<\/p>\n<p>The ESA is an organization that represents the video game industry. It seems natural for them to contribute money to political campaigns on behalf of their constituents (the videogame industry). The PTC isn&#8217;t a watchdog group so much as it&#8217;s a librarian with bun hairdo pulled too tight. Want to fight them directly? Join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theeca.com\">ECA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamevoters.org\/;jsessionid=FXVGYVMRB5LROCQQPABCFEQ\">VideoGameVoters Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dennis McCauley&#8217;s GamePolitics (which is owned by the ECA, a pro videogame lobby) writes: &#8220;Recent\u00a0word that the Entertainment Software Association would begin making political contributions on behalf of the video game industry brought a sharp response from watchdog group the Parents Television Council. Within days of the ESA announcement, PTC president Tim Winter issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}