Death by gaming: CNN keeps the heat on

CNN devotes a slice of humanity's news to a chap dying from exhaustion after gaming way, way too much.  Or so a source claims, without linkage:

The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.

"May have"?  That's a bit qualified, especially compared with CNN's headline.

Missing from CNN's account, which touches on the chimera of internet addiction, is any mention of Chinese digital censorship.

But analysts and gamers around the world will be disappointed in a different missing detail:

The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing.

(thanks to Robert Vega)

Comments

[pete naegele]

this reminds me of the fundamental arrtibution error of breaking hips in the elderly. Usually, they do not fall and break a hip, their hip breaks and then they fall...

I would think the sedentary lifestyle played a major role in this person's death.

[Bryan Alexander]

One would think. But it's typical of fearsome media accounts: select out for the tech, minimizing context.