"I don't say this often, but thank you to @MSNOWNews for playing our videos and showing it's having a positive effect on polling and messaging. The administration's social media accounts have been very busy, posting videos that combine real images of Iran war strikes with video games."
"Using video games as parallels for wars just has a desensitizing element to it, which, you know, over the course of time just makes people think, 'Oh, it's just like a video game.' You know, real human beings are being killed on both sides, so, that's a problematic situation."
"A CNN panel decried the communications strategy; David Sanger of The New York Times said he's never seen anything like this, that sort of takes the real footage and tries to basically suggest this is a game."
The White House communications director Steven Cheung thanked MSNOW for broadcasting administration videos combining real footage of Iran strikes with video game imagery. The videos interspersed actual military strikes with Nintendo Wii gaming footage showing characters hitting targets. A Washington Post poll showed opposition to the strikes dropped by 12% in one week. During MSNOW's Chris Jansing Reports, former Bush advisor Mark McKinnon criticized the strategy, noting the video game parallels have a desensitizing effect that trivializes real warfare where human beings are killed. CNN panelists similarly condemned the communications approach as unprecedented in its attempt to present actual military action as entertainment.
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