Denial of harm and victim caricature pervade industry defenses

Evidence

The plot continues with the negation of adverse effects. A television executive is asked by reporters whether he is aware of research showing that exposure to televised violence can have adverse effects. The executive replies that he is also aware of research disputing that claim. This encounter with the press includes a cut to a scene in which callous reporters press for comments from an anguished wife standing beside the body of her husband, who was crushed to death in a car accident. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 900

Categorization

• XREF: The move of answering adverse-effects research by citing disputing research = motivated denial of harm; parallels how opponents dismiss Islamophobia research as contested rather than examining mechanisms.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 900