Neil Conan, host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation gave Jack Thompson the bum’s rush during a three-minute appearance that additionally featured G4TV’s Adam Sessler and a guy named Jim from BushLeague.TV.
Highlights of Thompson’s brief appearance include:
Conan: I understand that…

We’ve just had an e-mail from Miami attorney Jack Thompson (left) to say that he would be on the Glenn Beck program on CNN Headline News that evening at 7PM & 9PM Eastern (second one is a repeat)…
GTA IV will be the topic, along with, apparently, Thompson’s issues with the Flor…

While public transit agencies in Chicago and Miami have pulled ads for Grand Theft Auto IV, it looks as whether GP’s local bus company will permit the ads to stay.
According to a report by all-news radio station KYW-1060, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) won’t bow …

A member of New Zealand’s Parliament has called for a ban on Grand Theft Auto IV.
As reported by Scoop, Independent MP Gordon Copeland wants GTA IV to be unavailable to New Zealanders. Copeland told Scoop:
Sadly New Zealand has become a violent society. Our criminal courts are nearly log jamm…

Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) president Hal Halpin arised on the CBS Evening News last night during tech reporter Daniel Sieberg’s segment on the Grand Theft Auto IV launch.
Hal spoke about how games are becoming as influential as movies in terms of entertainment.

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A representative of Philadelphia’s Fraternal Order of Police has criticized Grand Theft Auto IV. 
Off. Eugene Blagmond spoke to local TV station NBC-10 about GTA IV’s in-game confrontations with virtual cops:
The glorification of killing of any police officer is just wrong. I mean, …

Police in San Diego arrested a 27-year-old man yesterday and charged him with robbing a GameStop location, pepper-spraying two employees there and stealing a launch day copy of Grand Theft Auto IV.
Richard Fiel (at left, in the back of a police car) found that it’s tougher to shake real cops …

Tim Rutten, media critic for the Los Angeles Times, flays GTA IV - and its fans - in today’s column.
To be candid, Rutten’s comments sound rather generation gappish from here. Perhaps he should be called the LA Times “old media” critic:
One of the hallmarks of a healthy cons…

Sent to us without explanation by the man himself…
The only clue is the subject line of the e-mail, which says, cryptically:
Evidence
UPDATE: Some GP readers have suggested that Miami Jack has a GTA IV ”sting” announcement coming up. That’s certainly a possibility.
It’…

Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) president Hal Halpin will seem on the CBS Evening News to discuss the Grand Theft Auto IV launch.The program airs at 6:30 PM Eastern. More details to follow…
Full Disclosure Dept: The ECA is the parent company of GamePolitics…