Study Finds Conservative Radio Talk Shows Promotes Minority Hate Speech
While few may be surprised at the results of this study, the objective seems to be to actually document what is suspected. But in an age of the inverted pyramid, is such documentation still required and does it hold as much weight? Indeed, the fact that the commenters already seem to be aware of the findings could be one of the contributing factors to Pew Research Center's research that shows that 39% of videos viewed are news-related and many times feature footage captured by citizens. Watch for further non-traditional methods of reporting to be embraced as time moves ahead.
The hosts of "The Rush Limbaugh Show," "The Sean Hannity Show," "The Glenn Beck Program," The Savage Nation" and "The John and Ken Show” promote hate speech, according to a National Hispanic Media Coalition and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center study. It concludes that guests and hosts, as well as the topics, in certain radio talk tremendously focused negatively on minority groups. According to the study, using hateful rhetoric, hosts have cast immigrants as disease ridden, equated pro-immigrant organizations with neo-Nazis, called Islam an "evil religion," claimed the Obama administration is promoting "race riots" and made fun of the ethnicity of Asian-American politicians. Thoughts by "post-racial" America?
What Others Are Saying...
They can't possibly be shocked by discovering this. Listen to any one of these … radio shows … and you'll hear the … host complain about any American who isn't rich, white, and willing to agree with them on everything.
It makes about as much sense to call radio broadcasting “social networks” as it would be to call television broadcasting the same. .... Also, no “social network” requires an FCC License as radio broadcasters do. That right there is the single most important thing about what these political radio broadcasters are doing, they are not “tweeting” or “texting.” …
Those who say this is not true are usually white. … I have listened, or tried to listen to talk radio. The racial topics that are raised, and they are brought up frequently because race = ratings, always lead to heavy very passionate calls from both sides of the spectrum. … Of course the non-minority community will never understand. They have not been discriminated based on stereotypes due to their race. …