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Article: Video games reviled as the rock 'n' roll of the 21st century.(Local Opinion)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2008
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Byline: Todd Huffman For The Register-Guard
It undoubtedly will be with great effort that local parents soon will pry their slack-jawed and twitchy-thumbed children away from their newly unwrapped video games and send them back to the live-action world of school and homework, so boring by comparison.
Johnny and Emily are soon returned to the classroom - where teachers will labor tirelessly to repair the brain damage done, in time for the next long weekend or school vacation.
Or so non-gamers believe. But skepticism of new media is a tradition as old as ancient Greece, when Socrates worried that relying on written texts, rather than the oral ...