Roger Ebert had a very good movie based comment. He said that after the Columbine shooting somebody interviewed him and asked if he thought that violent movies caused things like this. He said that it was much more likely that the TV news industry caused them. Every time something like this happens it gets a logo, a sting of theme music and 24/7 coverage with attempts to analyse everything about the shooters. So the message to disturbed kids is that if you do this you'll be famous and everyone will try to understand you. You'll go out in a blaze of glory.
Of course this interview was never aired and they got some other talking heads to say that movies were to blame.
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Date: 2012-12-16 01:00 am (UTC)From:Of course this interview was never aired and they got some other talking heads to say that movies were to blame.