Colorado Media Activists Confront Bigotry in Talk Radio

Moosavi said, “We know what the problem is.” Correctly, he noted that we really should be asking “what are we going to do about it?

The Arab American News received a letter in follow-up to this piece from Bill Menezes, the editorial director of the Colorado spin-off of the organization, Media Matters. His group is a “Web-based progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the Colorado media.”

When media figures or their guests use the airwaves to broadcast false and hateful messages, Mr. Menezes’ group takes them to task. He suggested that readers of The Arab American News might be “interested in the work we’ve done in Colorado regarding the same types of irresponsible speech on local talk radio.” In other words, this group offers one answer to the question, what can be done?

Colorado Media Matters has gone to great lengths to record and document hate speech that appears on local and national televised media outlets. Their website links examples of anti-Muslim rhetoric on the airwaves in order to provide ammunition for local activists seeking its end.

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