http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,1927971,00.htmlShock jocks blamed over Sydney riots
· Report says local media worsened racial tensions
· 270,000 text messages coordinated showdown
Roger Maynard in Sydney
Saturday October 21, 2006
The Guardian
Running battles between white Australian gangs and Middle Eastern youths on a Sydney beach last year were fuelled by racial prejudice, alcohol, text messages and the inflammatory remarks of radio shock jocks, a police report has found.
The clashes, which were sparked by an alleged attack on surf lifesavers a week earlier, raised questions about Australia's multicultural society and undermined the fabric of the country's traditions.
Five thousand people were involved in the riot last December on Cronulla beach, which started as a protest to "reclaim the beach" from groups of mainly Lebanese youths who had reportedly intimidated young women bathers and assaulted two volunteer lifesavers. Gangs of white youths chased and assaulted anyone of vaguely Middle Eastern appearance, and fought police trying to bring the situation under control.
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PROPAGANDA AND PRACTICE
(Rwanda)
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/Geno1-3-10.htm<snip>
The radio was to become even more effective in delivering the message of hate directly and simultaneously to a wide audience. Before the war, Rwanda had only one radio station, the national Radio Rwanda, but listening to the radio was a popular distraction among ordinary people and elite alike. In 1991, some 29 percent of all households had a radio.4 The number of radio sets was presumably much higher by the start of the genocide. In some areas, the government distributed radios free to local authorities before the genocide and they may have done so after the killing began as well.5 One foreign religious sister who traveled from Kibuye to Butare during the height of the genocide reported that she had seen new radios at every one of the dozens of barriers where she had been stopped en route.6 People without radios listened to broadcasts in the local bar or got information from neighbors.
Until 1992, Radio Rwanda was very much the voice of the government and of the president himself. It announced prefectural or national meetings, nominations to and removals from government posts, and the results of admissions examinations to secondary schools.7 Before the daily news programs, Radio Rwanda broadcast excerpts of Habyarimana’s political speeches. This national radio sometimesbroadcast false information, particularly about the progress of the war, but most people did not have access to independent sources of information to verify its claims.
In March 1992, Radio Rwanda warned that Hutu leaders in Bugesera were going to be murdered by Tutsi, false information meant to spur the Hutu massacres of Tutsi. Following the establishment of the coalition government in April 1992, the MDR, PL, and PSD insisted on a new direction for Radio Rwanda. Ferdinand Nahimana, a stalwart supporter of the MRND, was removed from his post at the Rwandan Office of Information (ORINFOR), where he had supervised Radio Rwanda. Several months later, Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro, a member of one of the parties opposed to Habyarimana, was named director to steer the radio towards a more nonpartisan stance. By December 1993, Radio Rwanda had agreed to include the RPF among political parties participating in its broadcasts, although the decision had not been implemented by the time the genocide began.8
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