Industry critics framed media-violence researchers as self-promoting alarmists

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In a second editorial in TV Guide under the title “The Man in the Eye of the Hurricane,” Efron (1969b) further dismissed the modeling studies, complained that the research by members of the “Bandura school … won them center stage in Washington,” and criticized the surgeon general’s office for acting “as if Rome were burning and Dr. Bandura were a fire extinguisher.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 897

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• CANDY: The ‘Rome were burning and Dr. Bandura were a fire extinguisher’ jab is a delightfully snarky line worth sharing.