Television is morally superior to videogames … says a television station boss

If you want to truly define the term ‘biased,’ perhaps you might want to take a look at ITV executive Michael Grade, who has made the ridiculous claim that television is morally superior to videogames. The boss of one of Britain’s least entertaining TV stations has stated that because you sit and watch TV, it somehow makes it more moral than interactive entertainment. I don’t quite get the logic, since it’s akin to someone saying bicycling makes your nipples larger than driving does, because bikes have a handlebar. There’s no basis or reasoning for his random conclusion. Also, tea is healthier than coffee, because tea comes from India. You see how easy it is to pull these make-believe claims out of my arse?
Aside from the fact that such deep concepts as morality can’t just be so liberally applied to highly varied forms of media in the way that Grade did, […]

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