Why is it so hard to title something: 'Killings inspired by Batman Movie'

My apologies for the long departure, I had been assimilated into the herd and have only now, after many months been able to draw my self away from the ponies.

I'm going to take the time here to very quickly make a post about something very obvious that doesn't seem to be spoken about regarding the Dark Knight Rising shootings in Denver. As with many such cases, (such as the Anders Behring Breivik shootings) the media is always very quick to allege that the perpetrators are simply insane and extremely slow to draw any connections between the shootings and any social causes for such occurrences.

What is interesting in these shootings however, is that the connections between the shootings and the movie are so blantantly clear that any attempt to write about the event without mention this connection is absurd, almost to the point of hilarity.

Take this quote from a National Post article about the even for example:

"It also wasn’t known why the suspect chose a movie theatre to stage the assault, or whether he intended some twisted, symbolic link to the film’s violent scenes."

I mean how can anyone take this seriously? An extremely intelligent and educated young man walks into a cinema, with make shift body armour, armed to the teeth and died red clown-like hair, murders his victims in the cinema where the Batman movie itself is showing and even mutters to the policeman who catch him afterwards that he's the joker.

And we're still being told that it wasn't known whether he intended some connection to the movie?

The fact that the killings are so clearly inspired by Nolan's movies makes any attempt to write an article about the whole event downright absurd.

The question that seriously needs to be asked here, even more so than the shootings themselves, is why it is so difficult for the media to mention, rather uncontroversially, that the shootings were inspired by the movies?