Study Finds Conservative Talk Radio Promotes Echo-Chamber Of Hate Speech

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.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. reposted from mediamatters.org BLOG ››› AUGUST 3, 2012 12:40 PM EDT ››› SALVATORE COLLELUORI

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Our analysis yielded no instances of the first kind of hate speech, which calls for “immediate unlawful action,” but we did identify and develop categories for six distinct targets of the second kind, which creates “a climate of hate and prejudice.”