Archive for September, 2008


29
Sep

Rory O’Connor on Trust and Truth

Rory O’Connor ponders the future of journalistic trust at Harvard.


13
Sep

Video Interview: Bill Moyers Focuses on Shock Jocks

What happens when our airwaves fill with hate? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a tough look at the hostile industry of Shock Jock media with a hard-hitting examination of its effects on our national political discourse, and interviews the author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio in the process.


05
Sep

Beating the Press - Literally

Only in America could a man who has called the corporatized, in-the-tank, mainstream media his “base” run against that very same media, bashing it figuratively while “peace officers” were doing so quite literally in the streets of St. Paul.


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    Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio

    Written by veteran media critic and Emmy winner Rory O'Connor, Shock Jocks features unsparing profiles of the ten worst conservative radio talkers in America, including Michael Savage, Bill O' Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus and the rest.

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    • Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America\'s Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives
      Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America's Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives
      Author: Rory O\'Connor
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