I notice more and more situations where people seem unable to discern the difference between 'media portraying a character' and 'authors and participants have same views and beliefs as character'. Insane.
And results in stuff like this:
Yeah, this seems really bad to me too. A character having a particular flaw or predilection for violence means the book or film must be condoning that behavior. Seems to me to be what you get when the primary forms of mass communication are advertising and propaganda.