Producing violent media may desensitize the producers themselves to violence

Evidence

The networks’ overseers of scripts appear more concerned with how to portray violence without turning off the viewers than with the gruesome-ness of the violence itself and the morality of exploiting it. An issue worthy of study is whether producing violent programming desensitizes and habituates the producers to violence as it does the viewers. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 938

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether routine exposure to violence desensitizes its purveyors is left open—an empirical hook the reader might chase.
• SEED: Angle: the moral disengagement literature rarely studies the gatekeepers of harmful content—whether producers, editors, and platform reviewers get habituated exactly like audiences.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 938