I think it just rather odd to see the batch of articles coming from that bastion of journalistic integrity, "The Sun." First they report a girl dying of a heart attack after playing her 360 for 8 hours straight (cannot find the article, sorry) and now this one about a student who played his for 12 hours at a time and dies from deep vein thrumbosis ( http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol...
First off, the biggest thing that this article has against it is the Headline (which reads, "Death by Xbox.") but than you look at the secondary headline (which reads, "Game addict, 20, killed
by deep vein thrombosis") and they don't really seem to match up at all (minus the whole sitting down for long periods).
The next problem it seems to put the blame greatly on the shoulders of the 360 but then it goes on about the Thrombosis. Yet the author cannot help but keeping the xbox in the article; in fact, it mentions the damn console no less than 7 times. And to just burn that fact in the back of your skull, they show a picture of the 360 (with a caption on the bottom that reads, "Addictive ... Xbox 360.").
This is just sensationalism, pure and simple. What killed the damn kid was deep vein Thrombosis. Now it is sad to see a young man dying in the prime of his life from such an unfortunate condition but to see the Sun use this tragedy to pull this kind of sensationalism is seedy and in poor taste. They focus of the article should have been about 'Deep vein Thrombosis' and not gaming. It wouldn't have mattered if he was watching TV, playing games or even reading a book.
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