Industry allies were placed on the surgeon general’s violence committee.

Evidence

In a surprise move, Senator John Pastore, a supporter of the broadcast industry (Butler, 1972) who chaired the Communications Subcommittee, instructed the surgeon general, with President Richard Nixon’s endorsement, to assemble a committee of experts to evaluate the effects of televised violence and to allocate $1 million for new research on this topic. The first meeting of the evaluation committee took place at the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford. Ed Parker—who with Wilbur Schramm and Jack Lyle coauthored Television in the Lives of Our Children (1961)—and I were invited to sit in on the meeting. We were surprised to find that five of the members of the committee were tied to the broadcast industry—two network researchers, two network consultants, and a former research executive at CBS. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 906

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 906