Broadcast industry attacked researchers whose findings threatened advertising profits
Evidence
This excursion into the public policy arena provided a sobering glimpse into the power of the broadcast industry. Look magazine invited me to write a piece on the social influence of television for a special issue they were publishing on Youth. When it appeared, the Television Information Office, a subsidiary of the National Association of Broadcasters, sent a large packet to its sponsor stations explaining why my research on social modeling and testimony at a Senate hearing should be disregarded. This was just the beginning of a multipronged offensive. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 894
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to the tobacco industry’s coordinated attacks on smoking research, and to the moral disengagement theme of industries discrediting inconvenient science.
Related
- The broadcast industry organized coordinated attacks on violence researchers (similarity 0.88)
- Industries neutralize moral concerns by disputing evidence of harm rather than changing practices (similarity 0.80)
- Tobacco firms rebutted passive-smoking claims by attacking the science (similarity 0.79)
- The tobacco industry denied advertising’s effect while spending billions on it (similarity 0.79)
- Industries outsource research to shift moral accountability to proxy agents (similarity 0.78)
- Industry-funded media research is designed so its results will vindicate the sponsor. (similarity 0.78)