UCLA Study Finds KFI Hosts Guilty of 'Hate Speech'
Several years ago, UCLA professor of cinema and media studies Chon Noriega teamed up with colleague Francisco Javier Iribarren to analyze a slice of AM radio’s dominant format, conservative talk.
The pair focused on two weekday programs, one of which, “John and Ken,” has recently come under heavy fire for its on-air disclosure of a Hispanic public relations professional’s cell phone number. Final findings published this month show that both the KFI-AM 640 program and “The Savage Nation” were guilty of four different kinds of hate speech, based on the analysis of separate 40-minute-block transcripts from late July 2008:
The study found that dehumanizing metaphors were used in 185 statements.
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