NIMF Interview

Dr. David Walsh on Video Game Addiction on GameCyte is an extensive interview with Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute for Media and the Family (NIMF), discussing their self-appointed role as media watchdog. Their NIMF-hunting yields a conversation that covers the arguable premise that games can promote violence, the implications of video game addiction, and plays who watches the watchdogs in asking about their decision to accept a $50,000 donation from the Entertainment Software Association earlier this year, and the controversy over this apparent conflict of interest. Dr. Walsh offers interesting outlooks on these topics, here's a sample of a comment about addiction: "What my hope is is that there’s not a backlash against anyone. What my hope is is that there’s a recognition that for some people, this is a problem, and we have to figure out A.) how to prevent it from happening in the first place, or B.) for those for whom it does become a problem, figure out how to help them effectively. I would not hope that, just as I don’t want to condemn an alcohol industry because some people become alcoholics, just as I don’t want to close down all the casinos because there are some people who become compulsive gamblers, I would hope that we wouldn’t go after companies that produce video games because for some people it becomes a problem."
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Their NIMF-hunting yields a conversation that covers the arguable premise that games can promote violence, the implications of video card addiction, and plays who watches the watchdogs in asking about their decision to accept a $50,000 donation from the Entertainment Software Association earlier this year, and the controversy over this apparent conflict of interest.

Video card addiction, eh? Now THAT's an expensive habit.
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