Papantonio: The Consequences of Violent Right Wing Rhetoric

[GoLeft TV]

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A few years ago, a right wing extremist took his shotgun into a church and shot two people dead. He committed these murders because the victims were liberals – people who in his mind were destroying America. The gunman told investigators that he believed people like Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly when they tell their listeners that liberals want to destroy America. This story highlights just how dangerous the conservative media has become. Mike Papantonio talks about the influence that the media has over the public with Maria Armoudian, author of the new book “Kill The Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World.”

[Jnana]

1. Papantonio must have missed it--we are living in the "era of information."

I believe people are a whole lot smarter than Papantonio thinks.

[RC]

2. An era of miss-information, you mean.

When our main stream media is owned by the same corporations that has bought our government, do not expect a lot of straight up and down news.

[AlinPA]

3. Some people are. But a lot of Fox viewers (enough to keep republicans in office) are

out there, believing what they watch and hear on Fox.