Yeah - great journalism guys.

[nath]

Father killed partner who became hooked on Sony PlayStation - Telegraph

Great stuff, so the lady gets hooked on the playstation to a fault and that's the focus of the story. The fact that she may have been having an affair and threatened the husband that he may never see his kids again - minor addition. Clearly it's the console that is more relevant.

 

[Vintersorg]

Father killed partner who became hooked on Sony PlayStation - Telegraph

Great stuff, so the lady gets hooked on the playstation to a fault and that's the focus of the story. The fact that she may have been having an affair and threatened the husband that he may never see his kids again - minor addition. Clearly it's the console that is more relevant.

Of course, because we all know Consoles/PC's are the tools of the Devil and Gamers are actually daemons in human form...
I really don't bother with this kind of articles anymore. It's just the "mentally challenged" who believe that gaming is evil

 

[Tom]

Of course it's the focus - it's an unusual story and therefore newsworthy. I don't see the article apportioning blame on the console itself.

 

[TdC]

The genesis of this tragedy bizarrely lies with the purchase of the PlayStation

awesome. the fact that that fellow went insane and killed his wife has nothing to do with it, I see it clearly! besides the fact that there were many other factors involved IT WAES TEH EVUL GAYMES!!!1

 

[nath]

Of course it's the focus - it's an unusual story and therefore newsworthy. I don't see the article apportioning blame on the console itself.

Not explicitly but it does portion out the blame by the headline and the way it's written. The focus is on that aspect of the story when clearly the fact he thought she was having an affair and her threatening that he'd never see his kids again is far more significant. They've written it like that to make it seem more interesting. It's dodgy fucking journalism.

 

[Overdriven]

OMGNOES! Consoles are EVIL!

 

[DaGaffer]

Well this is a new twist; the person playing GTA IV gets killed by the person NOT playing it! So consoles are not only twist the minds of those playing the game, but other people in the vicinity. Wow.

 

[Raven]

Consoles invented religion and religion kills babies!!twenty6