Media executives justify harm by blaming the youth they target

Evidence

However, marketing and conglomerate media executives were never asked to reflect on their practices. The one moral justification they voiced was that they were merely responding to the demands of the youth culture rather than creating that culture. The teens were to blame. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1002

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s existing claims about how ordinary people rationalize supporting harmful policy; executives displace blame onto their audience, echoing Bandura’s moral disengagement mechanisms applied elsewhere.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1002