Psychiatrist: Video Game Focus a 'Red Herring'. Associated Press, 2018. Associated Press Video Collection. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com.
This video was created by a licensed psychiatrist as a response to President Trump’s statement about violence as an effect of video games. In the video, he talks about how significant events like mass shootings are not outright events caused by video games. He states there should be more background checks for criminal record history and, if applicable, a period between which a buyer can even receive a gun. He notes that how much time children spend on violent games should be looked at, but events like these are not caused by working video game designers. This is a great source for referencing ethos. Because of the speaker’s profession as a psychiatrist, connecting that to the development between video games and violence makes what he says believable, or more trustworthy. What he says about background checks is opinion, but his ethos and logos, logic to his reasoning, supports his case. I plan to use this in supporting my opinion on the effectiveness of video games, how intense or subtle it may be. Before I didn’t know where exactly I stood in my opinion on violent video games, but with doing more and more research like this I’m getting closer to a clear foundation to rest my thesis statement on.
