Report: Quantifying Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio

Scholars at UCLA have released (and here) the results of “Quantifying Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio,” a study analyzing content that denigrates vulnerable communities. “We have analyzed . . . three conservative talk shows in which we found statements attacking vulnerable groups like Hispanics,” Francisco Xavier Iribarren, assistant director at UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center.

In recent months, as previously reported on ImmigrationProf, some talk show radio shows in the Los Angeles area, sometimes referred to as the “Latino Metropolis,” have been criticized for anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican diatribes.

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