What I don't get, besides the fact no one on the editorial board came over to talk to me about this when they were writing this and I was still working there, is why the Rocky Mountain News editorial is so deliberately missing the point of this story.

The parents group's request to ban video game ads and only video games isn't about constitutionality, it's about hypocrisy.

Had the editorial board bothered to call up and talk to the National Grassroots Director for the Parents Television Council or read my feature about the issue here on Kotaku they would have probably noticed something far more interesting than the somewhat tangential, and off-base, issue of constitutionality.

In the story Gavin McKiernan tells us that the real issue wasn't about adult content, it was about the fact that those advertisements were for video games not movies.

In fact, Gavin told me he wouldn't try and stop advertising for R-rated movies, the issue was about the medium, not the content. Something, I think, that could have made for a much more interesting discussion in the editorial section of a major newspaper. Brian Crecente

The freedom to say 'no' [Rocky Mountain News]

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