![]() ![]() In case you missed it, Nicolas Jacquart, a 23-year-old developer from south England, had designed and launched an online game called "Miss Bimbo" intended for female players age 9 to 16. ![]() Media scrutiny or free publicity? You decide. But as the media pounced, with round-the-clock scrutiny of the values the "Miss Bimbo" game espouses, it only helped to double the number of users. As news of the "Miss Bimbo" video game grew like kudzu across news websites and cable TV, so did public awareness about a relatively obscure online gaming site intended for little girls. Why look a gift horse in the mouth, right? Well, it turns out few media outlets did. What news outlet looking to fill a 24/7 news cycle could resist? "Miss Bimbo" had all the right ingredients for a splashy news story: a sensational headline (key word: "bimbo") a sexy tech angle (online video game) young children potentially at risk (catnip for concerned parents everywhere) and a built-in base of available media commentators (whether gaming experts or women's groups or media watchdogs). The "Miss Bimbo" story arrived like a gift to newsrooms around the world last week: the perfect illustration of the new lows to which our celebrity-obsessed culture has sunk. ![]()
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