Study Finds Conservative Talk Radio Promotes Echo-Chamber of Hate Speech | Blog | Media Matters for America

Study Finds Conservative Talk Radio Promotes Echo-Chamber of Hate Speech | Blog | Media Matters for America

Study Finds Conservative Talk Radio Promotes Echo- Chamber Of Hate Speech BLOG ››› AUGUST 3, 2012 12:40 PM EDT ››› SALVATORE COLLELUORI On Wednesday, the National Hispanic Media Coalition and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center released a study showing that guests and topics discussed during "The Rush Limbaugh Show," "The Sean Hannity Show," "The Glenn Beck Program," The Savage Nation" and "The John and Ken Show" overwhelmingly marginalized minority groups. As the study explains: The findings reveal that the hosts promoted an insular discourse that focused on, for example, anti-immigration, anti-Islam, and pro-Tea Party positions and that this discourse found repetition and amplification through social media. These viewpoints have far reaching consequences. NHMC President and CEO Alex Nogales told Fox News Latino that the social network surrounding conservative talk radio and Fox News has spread to social media websites resulting in "an echo-chamber of voices, both online and off, that promotes hatred against ethnic, racial and religious groups and the LGBT community on social media web sites." Using hateful rhetoric, these 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. 00:00 00:00 Posted in Diversity & Discrimination, Immigration, Race & Ethnicity Person Bill Hemmer, Glenn Beck, Joel Richardson, Michael Savage, Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh Show/Publication Glenn Beck Program, Glenn Beck show, The Five, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Savage Nation Copyright © 2012 Media Matters for America. All rights reserved..

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