Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Born to be Wild (about video games?)
(a new article from Mickey Z.)
“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”
-Clarence Darrow
On October 28, 2004, the New York Times decided it was fit to print an article called “Weaned on Video Games” by Michel Marriott. In the piece—essentially a press release for the video game industry—we learned of a report last fall by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy research organization, which “found that half of all 4- to 6-year-old children have played video games—on hand-held devices, computers or consoles—and one in four played several times a week. Of children 3 or younger, 14 percent have played video games.”
“Companies have found that there was an untapped market with the really young kid,” said Vicky Rideout, a vice president of the foundation.
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