PTC Takes the Media by Storm

Written by PTC | Published March 12, 2018

insider On March 8, 2018, the Parents Television Council Program Director Melissa Henson took part in a high profile meeting at the White House about media violence. An extensive amount of media coverage covered this meeting with President Trump. Below is a short list of the extensive media coverage that reported on the meeting: ASSOCIATED PRESS: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/trump-to-meet-with-video-game-execs-and-critics/2018/03/08/ff827f1c-22f3-11e8-946c-9420060cb7bd_story.html REUTERS: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-discusses-video-game-violence-doom-maker-other-000206332--finance.html USA TODAY: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/03/08/trump-talk-video-game-makers-critics-thursday-white-house-meeting/406374002/ NEW YORK TIMES: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/politics/trump-draws-lively-opinions-on-video-game-violence-but-shrouds-his-own.html WASHINGTON POST: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/08/inside-trumps-private-meeting-with-the-video-game-industry-and-its-critics/ WASHINGTON EXAMINER: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-kicked-off-video-game-meeting-with-horrendous-skull-splitting-and-impaling-clips-participants-say/article/2651112 POLITICO: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/08/trump-video-game-violence-395116 THE HILL: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/overnights/377515-overnight-tech-trump-holds-video-game-meeting-former-uber-ceo BROADCASTING & CABLE: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/ptc-pushes-white-house-vet-violent-content-broadcast-networks/172236 EDUCATION WEEK: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_and_the_media/ MULTICHANNEL NEWS: http://www.multichannel.com/news/policy/white-house-remains-focused-video-game-violence/418585 VARIETY: http://variety.com/2018/politics/news/trump-video-games-2-1202721889/ ROLLING STONE: https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/inside-trumps-meeting-with-video-game-industry-w517632 MH_WH_MVDONALD TRUMP INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgE6Z_0gKdv/?hl=en&taken-by=realdonaldtrump DEADLINE: http://deadline.com/2018/03/violent-video-games-trump-parkland-white-house-meeting-entertainment-software-association-1202320707/ THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/president-trump-holds-listening-session-violent-video-games-1093219 CBN NEWS: http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/march/trump-meets-with-video-game-industry-to-talk-about-school-violence LIFEZETTE: https://www.lifezette.com/momzette/violence-video-games-hot-topic-white-house/ CBS NEWS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/80-percent-of-mass-shooters-showed-no-interest-in-video-games-researcher-says/ THE VERGE: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17098230/trumps-video-game-violence-meeting-esa TALKING POINTS MEMO: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-discusses-violence-with-video-game-execs-and-critics THINK PROGRESS: https://thinkprogress.org/the-nras-professor-of-killology-is-meeting-trump-to-discuss-violent-video-games-5741d75cfb76/ RED STATE: https://www.redstate.com/slee/2018/03/08/trump-talks-violent-video-games-industry-leaders-members-congress/ THE DAILY SIGNAL: http://dailysignal.com/2018/03/08/industry-leaders-defend-violent-video-games-in-meeting-with-trump/ ARKANSAS ONLINE: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/mar/09/trump-questions-violence-in-video-games/ BROWNSVILLE HERALD: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/business/trump-to-meet-with-video-game-execs-and-critics/article_0b12f8b5-cb73-53aa-9621-ddb5b4ef3752.html KDH NEWS: http://kdhnews.com/living/health/trump-to-meet-with-video-game-execs-and-critics/article_ff52b8aa-32a8-50ea-8a29-a992b3d7dfb1.html KTBS: https://www.ktbs.com/news/business/trump-meets-with-video-game-execs-and-critics/article_563a5f0c-5ccb-5a64-a5ce-ba8bff9a058b.html MSN NEWS: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-discusses-violence-with-video-game-execs-and-critics/ar-BBK0EHZ WASHINGTON TIMES: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/8/trump-to-meet-with-video-game-industry-representat/ SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/03/09/utah-experts-look-past-the-talking-points-after-trumps-meeting-on-video-game-violence/ NEWSWEEK: http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-vs-video-games-gun-violence-837435 GAMESPOT: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/donald-trumps-video-game-meeting-heres-who-is-atte/1100-6457238/ MViolence_DonateGAMASUTRA: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/315347/ GAME RANT: https://gamerant.com/video-game-violence-president-trump-631/ PC GAMER: https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-who-will-be-at-the-white-house-meeting-on-videogame-violence/ KOTAKU: https://kotaku.com/trump-meets-with-game-executives-watches-clips-of-viol-1823628952 SEEKING ALPHA: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3337716-videogame-stocks-higher-white-house-summit-eyes-violence TWINFINITE: http://twinfinite.net/2018/03/trump-video-game-meeting/ NEW REPUBLIC: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/147332/no-collusion-trump-transition-team-work-hard-set-back-channel-russia POLYGON: https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/8/17095178/who-is-going-trump-video-games-meeting-white-house

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