Posted
9:52 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Must ViewThe segment on Bill Moyer's Journal last night on how right-wing talk radio has poisoned American discourse. It is disturbing but very insightful. On the show was Rory O'Connor, the author of
Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America's Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternative (
here's a blog post on the book). O'Connor was the journalist who had uncovered that author Carlton Sherwood's manuscript for a book defending Sun Myung Moon was reviewed by Unification Church operatives despite Sherwood's claim that he was an independent journalist (
click here for more about Unification-related books).