Thursday, July 3, 2014

Fox lifts logo from video game, is kinda sorta racist


Fox News (alias "FIXED News", alias "The Right Wing", et. al. whatever, you get the idea).  Is rather right wing in their coverage of the world and of politics.  Great for them, freedom of speech, all that jazz.  Unfortunately, that angle of coverage takes an interesting turn when they lift a logo directly from a video game that imagines that whole slavery thing is, you know, still a thing.


The resemblance is uncanny. The structural outline of Fox News' rendition is almost identical to the emblem utilized in Bioshock Infinite's award-winning video game. Mediatitewrites that the logo was exclusively used on Fox & Friends, a right-wing talk show notorious for its anti-Obama coverage. In an ironic twist, Bioshock Infinite is set in a fictional universe where Abraham Lincoln is vilified and racial segregation remains part of the status quo.
That's...not a great look, Fox.  

(h/t @verge)

No comments:

Post a Comment