The broadcast industry organized coordinated attacks on violence researchers

Evidence

This excursion into the public policy arena provided a sobering glimpse into the power of the broadcast industry. Look magazine invited me to write a piece on the social influence of television for a special issue they were publishing on Youth. When it appeared, the Television Information Office, a subsidiary of the National Association of Broadcasters, sent a large packet to its sponsor stations explaining why my research on social modeling and testimony at a Senate hearing should be disregarded. This was just the beginning of a multipronged offensive. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 894

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels corporate attacks on inconvenient research (tobacco, lead) and the vault’s claims about industry self-protection. — connects to: The broadcast industry systematically suppressed adverse media-effects research; The broadcast industry suppressed findings of its own violence effects report
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 894