2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WTF is wrong with Americans? [View all]uhnope
(6,419 posts)a lot of it is on podcast and so can be documented. I tried for a year to get RWW, SPLC and others to start monitoring shows (podcasts) in a more widespread and systematic fashion but they also don't seem to think it's worth it. SPLC has a hate map--why not a hate radio map, including hate jocks to show how they move around from station to station, and where they broadcast?
As you say, we're paying the price for that active ignoring and now we're way behind. In fact I kind of think it's too late--when I talk to my family members who have been on a twenty-year diet of FOX, Limbaugh, Mark Levine, and Glenn Beck, I see that their thinking is irretrievably gone. Some of them even adopt new right wing positions on subjects that before they didn't even care about. A real brainwashing.
Anyway thanks again. I wish there were more who agreed with us.