NHMC Seeks Official Updates to ‘Hate in the Media’ Report
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) held a conference this morning in Washington, D.C. petitioning Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to update their 1993 report on hate in the media. Alex Nogales, president and CEO of NHMC, presented a three-pronged approach that aimed to attenuate the problem as well as provided a methodology created by UCLA that attempts to scientifically identify hateful language.
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UCLA’s pilot study titled Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio began last October and examines the use of false facts, flawed arguments, and decisive language in conservative talk radio and its affects [sic] upon the opinions of listeners. Right-winged radio was chosen because it reaches about 80% of the American population weekly.
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[“decisive language” is hateful?]