I was never really all that into skateboarding, but I can’t deny the closest I ever came to caring was after playing the Tony Howk games. If we were to actually measure the number of people who got hurt because of those games, I’m pretty sure the number would be way higher than people expect.
But of course, it’s not exactly encouraging you to do anything violent, just really dangerous, so there’s a difference between these games and some other’s that the media has tried to trash.
Really though, I’ve never been the kind of person that believes that media is the problem.