Play War: Homemade Recreational Battlefields

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10 pointsbenbreen2 comments

The bias of this article is annoyingly blatant. The writer ignores the most common forms of the sport, which look more like a sporting event than war, replete with brightly colored uniforms and colorful playing fields. Reminds me of the "journalism" that abounded regarding video games in the 90's and how they would make everyone want to be a killer, etc, etc.

For reference, this is what the large majority of paintball fields look like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Speedball...

Interesting, I didn't get the impression there was this bias at all. If it was intended to be an article and gallery about paintball per se, then I would agree you. My understanding was that they were writing about and photographing specifically the subset that recreates battlefields, both real and imaginary.

And even though the writer touched upon issues of militarism, even those were even-handed in my opinion. There was no antiwar preaching to be found.

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