Producers actively deceived censors by loading scripts with sacrificial content

Evidence

Some figured out how to outwit their overseers: “The easiest way to deal with a censor is to load [a script] with things you know they’ll take out, leaving what you want” (Baldwin & Lewis, 1972). Moral considerations were short-changed in this power struggle. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 964

Categorization

• SHARE: A specific person working in TV or film would enjoy this concrete overcompliance-and-deception tactic from the old censor era.
• XREF: Connects to the ‘complaints about immodesty’ theme of content-control battles, and to moral disengagement’s displacement of responsibility.