Materials

You can get the press release in PDF format as well as an excerpt from the book and a pdf version of the FAQ.

About the Authors

RORY O’CONNOR is a documentary filmmaker and journalist Rory O’Connor is co-founder and president of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc, and Board Chair of The Global Center, an affiliated non-profit foundation. He is also Editorial Director of the social news network NewsTrust. net. A regular columnist for Alternet and MediaChannel, O’Connor also writes the popular “Media Is A Plural” blog, accessible at roryoconnor.org. His broadcast, film and print work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer’s Guild Award, a George Orwell Award, two Emmys, among other awards.

AARON CUTLER is a Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania native, attended Friends’ Central School for 13 years before enrolling at Brown University. He is currently a senior double-majoring in English and Literary Arts, Brown’s name for Creative Writing. Regardless of where he is or what he does next year, he will be sure to listen to conservative talk radio.

Praise for Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio

“This intriguing, eye-opening and hugely important work is a must read account of the dangers of blurring opinion, journalism and entertainment — at the expense of our democratic discourse and ideals.” — Walter Cronkite

“Rory O’Connor and Aaron Cutler, in this admirable example of whistleblowing, do for talk radio in our time what Upton Sinclair and George Seldes did for the press in their time.” — Howard Zinn

“O’Connor and Aaron Cutler deliver a lively, well deserved punch in the nose to these powerful bloviators.” — Ken Auletta

“Rory O’Connor is one of the smartest media guys around… a devastating portrait of the avarice, cynicism, and psychopathology of one of the strangest media phenomena of our time: the shock jock.” — Michael Wolff