Watchdog monitoring forced TV writers to abandon overt ethnic stereotyping

Evidence

But in response to increased popular awareness of ethnic stereotyping and the active monitoring of Arab and Muslim watchdog groups, television writers have had to adjust their story lines to avoid blatant, crude stereotyping. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 130

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general literature on how organized complaint/civil-rights bodies reshape media content, similar to the moral panic and social control material already in the reader’s collection.