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Bill Moyers: Rage on the Radio, the Shock Jocks Rory O'Connor Has Warned Us About

Posted by ZP Heller, Bill Moyers Journal at 6:00 AM on September 14, 2008.
Watch just how damaging right-wing hate speech can be.

Friday's episode of Bill Moyers Journal examined the violent damage caused by the vitriolic rhetoric of shock jocks, conservative radio talkers like Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Savage. Correspondent Rick Karr interviewed Rory O'Connor, author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio. They focused on how right-wing hate speech has fueled the imigration debate in our country, and, more recently, how it directly contributed to the tragic shooting at the Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Watch Moyers' interview with O' Connor here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs5hUsrlUck

And Rory O'Connor's book is available at AlterNet Books.
https://www.alternet.org/books/9/?mediachannel

ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written for The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture.