As you all know, The Wayilezick has been launch yesterday (unexpectly, but it's a good thing now). As promised, it will bring you news, sports, weather and fictional stories written by the blog.
Today we bring you "The Wayilezick Opinioner", a place where the opinion person will make an opinion on what's happening on the news.
Let's take the first one: The Movie Theater Massacre at Colorado. Let's go to the Opinioner for his opinion.
Today it was supposed to be a fun - or "slow" as TVNewser as call it - Summer Friday with concerts happening on every Friday.
There was a concert that was supposed to perform on the Today Show this morning. Well, they did perform alright. It's just that the news of the movie theater shooting were so important to viewers that the Today Show cannot bring the concert at this time. The Today Show promised viewers (and they did three days later) that the concert will air next week.
Same thing has happened to Good Morning America. There was a concert was performed but they didn't broadcast any of it because of the exact same thing.
Yes, it was one of the saddest days in the world. An exciting midnight showing - the theater was showing "The Dark Knight Rises", the newest Batman movie - turns into tragedy when a 24-year-old gunman opened fire and shoot over 50 people.
But the fact of the matter is that - I think - that Hollywood was there to blame. They make violent (and probably horror) movies every year. Parents and advocacy groups were concern that those movies will inspire people to do what they saw at the movies - killing people.
Back in 1999, a school shooting happened at Columbine High School in Littlen, Colorado - yes it's the same state that has not only have the Movie theater shooting in Aurora, but also have another school shooting in Deer Creek Middle School back in 2010 - Two gunmen shoot a lot of students and faculty members before killing themselves. Many people, as well as people in the media, point fingers at Hollywood saying that Hollywood was blamed for this and needs to change.
The WB, at the time when the network was operating at that time of this incident, has pulled not just one but TWO episodes of (the third season of) "Buffy The Vampire Slayer". They were both replaced by the re-airing of "Bad Candy" (I think). The first one, "Earshot" has been pulled immediately after the school shooting incident because there was a connection between the pilot of this episode and what's happened at the Columbine shooting incident. The second one, "Graduation Day, Part 2" was pulled because The WB executives (or the media) were afraid that high school students will do the same thing. "Graduation Day, Part 2", which is the third season finale, has been aired on July 13, 1999, thinking that it's safe to air the episode since all high school graduations have passed. The first one, "Earshot", which the network insisted that it will never air at all, has been on September 21, 1999, a few weeks before the fourth season of "Buffy" premiered. (The WB was merged with UPN to form The CW network in 2006)
It's not just The WB who face that same issue, there were many Hollywood movies and TV shows that are really so violent (or, in the case of The Muary Show or "Jerry Springer", outrageous). For example the 1999 movie "Teaching Mrs. Tingle", the movie written and directed by Kevin Williamson (the same man who created "Dawson's Creek"), has been renamed from "Killing Mrs. Tingle" and was delayed until August 20, 1999.
To be fairy honest (once again) I think that Hollywood should be blamed for this movie theater massacre. I think that Hollywood should not make any more movies that are violent (or at least "too violent) because it will make real people to be involved to kill people. Video games should be blamed too because many people playing video games that are rated M (or, in some cases such as Tomb Raider, T) inspire people to do the same thing.
Whether or not, this gunman (who shot a lot of people in the massacre) planned for this or not, I think that this gunman was inspired by the violence of the Batman movie (which is, once again, "The Dark Knight Rises") and other violent (and horror) movies as well.
My hearts and prayers goes out to the families and friends of the victims, who are in that massacre.
The Wayilezick Opinionier
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