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.alternet.org/blogs/video/98725/

And Rory O'Connor's book is available at AlterNet Books.

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.