Mass media openly admit being business to justify their production

Evidence

Some writers and producers divest viewers of human sensibilities or invest them with base qualities that justify serving them gory offerings: “Man’s mind is connected to his stomach, his groin, and his fists. It doesn’t float five feet above his body. Violence, therefore, cannot be eradicated” (Baldwin & Lewis, 1972). Viewers allegedly hanker for brutality: “If he doesn’t beat the hell out of him, I want my money back.” This presumption is based on the belief that people find violence inherently gratifying. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 928 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media producers justify violent content by claiming viewers crave it — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 928; Mass culture’s commercial self-justification is a subterfuge that evades responsibility for falsity; Mass media exploit receivers because industrial production meets artisanal biological reception. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 189

Broader Connections

• Mass culture’s commercial self-justification is a subterfuge that evades responsibility for falsity #expands (0.95)
• Media producers justify violent content by claiming viewers crave it #corroborates (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 928