Violence producers may become as desensitized as viewers to onscreen 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: Has research since this book been done on whether producers/network executives of violent content become desensitized? Would be interesting to follow up.