Today’s Courant delivers the usual fear mongering headline to accompany the Joe Lieberman position on children and video games; Lieberman Defends Video-Game Money. The article goes on to describe all the donations that Lieberman received this past election cycle, and what a surprise to find not a single video game company listed! Instead David Lightman cites WWE, which is a promotion company based in Stamford that excels at selling the shock and awe of large wrestling personalities strutting in spandex. They package this spectacle in various media, including toys and the occasional video game. But to say the WWE is a video game company is like saying that The Courant is in the interactive media business since they manage to occasionally put out an interactive piece.

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