WASHINGTON
The National Hispanic Media Coalition, a media advocacy and civil rights organization, plans to unveil its preliminary findings on hate speech in commercial radio today and to follow up with a petition to the Federal Communications Commission.
The coalition scheduled a press conference at the National Press Club led by Alex Nogales, its president & chief executive officer.
“We are very respectful of the first amendment and free speech, but the hateful rhetoric, particularly against the immigrant minority communities, espoused by irresponsible TV and radio talk show hosts on American airwaves needs to be addressed and today we will present a three-prong strategy to do so,” explained Nogales.
The NHMC said it would present preliminary findings of a pilot study to quantify hate speech in commercial talk radio by the UCLA/Chicano Studies Research Center, headed by Chon Noriega, who is also a professor in the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media.
