{"id":520977,"date":"2010-04-08T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011557423_wikileaksvideoshows12deadiniraqarmyassault.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:40:32","slug":"wikileaks-video-shows-12-dead-in-iraq-army-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520977","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks video shows 12 dead in Iraq army assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Soldiers did as instructed; video games helped<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The WikiLeaks video of helicopter gunners eagerly shooting civilians and savoring their kills as if playing a video game, although horrific, is understandable. [\u201cIraq video sheds welcome light on rogue group,\u201d News, April 7.]<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, University of Michigan researchers studied the effects of persistent violent video gaming on human development. They found it is the second-best way to breed anti-social behavior into our new generations \u2014 the best, joining a gang such as the Crips or the Bloods.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>First-person shooter video gaming, a popular form of entertainment, creates the \u201ckilling is fun\u201d mindset needed for military service. The Pentagon uses first-person shooter video games as recruiting and training tools. The gunners <em>did exactly as they were taught by the video-game industry and the U.S. military.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Daniel Ruuska, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers did as instructed; video games helped The WikiLeaks video of helicopter gunners eagerly shooting civilians and savoring their kills as if playing a video game, although horrific, is understandable. [\u201cIraq video sheds welcome light on rogue group,\u201d News, April 7.] Years ago, University of Michigan researchers studied the effects of persistent violent video gaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}