How media "pundits" reinforce hate crimes

The U.S. based Antidefamation League's 2009 report on The State of Hate has a very direct message for the media.
"The increasing number of shrill anti-Immigration reform commentaries from high profile national media personalities, including CNN's Lou Dobbs and Talk Show Network's The Savage Nation host Michael Savage, correlates closely with the increase in hate crimes against Hispanics, writes the antiracist association. There is a direct connection between the tenor of this rhetoric and the daily lives of immigrants, and many fear that the unintended consequence of media celebrities vilifying immigrants will be an atmosphere in which some people will act on these demonizing screeds, violently targeting immigrants and those perceived to be immigrants.

If you want to have more on this media-racism link, please read the report
http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/escalating-violence.html