Responsibility?

I believe that it isn’t the writer who is to be held responsible for what they write about. Obviously something in whatever has been created will have a character or a viewpoint that is reflective of his or her own, but who’s to say that they aren’t allowed to write out of a different viewpoint. They write about what will sell, and the majority of the time, what will sell will be borderline controversial. People don’t like to read about a prefect life, they don’t like to see a functional family as much as a dysfunctional family—we as a society ask for it. How often do we laugh at obscene racist and sexist jokes, it is entertainment! The writers write for the dough, we have got to come to grips with that. Yes they will insert what they believe somewhere among the characters and plot, but you cant say that the underlying message sent is that which is believed by the writer. They write what we want to hear, that’s why there are the warnings before TV shows and programs, we make the choice about what we watch or read. Who is to be held accountable except yourself?