December 12, 2007 (LPAC)--Numerous video "gamer" websites are attacking former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, who called violent videogames and Internet game blogs "cancerous" for youth violence, in a published interview Dec. 4 with Townhall.com.

Interviewer Hugh Hewitt brought up to Brokaw that "NBC ran the Virginia Tech killer tape on the day they obtained it." Brokaw called that the right decision, but then said, "I don't think we're doing a very good job about talking about violence in this country. You know, Virginia Tech went away. We didn't have any ongoing dialog in our communities or on the air about the corrosive effect of violence. It was not what he [Cho], what people saw of him on the air that will drive them, it's what they read in blog sites, and what they see in video games.

It's that kind of stuff that I think is cancerous.... We have to have free speech in some kind of a context. And part of that context is a discussion of the possible effects of it."