Coalition Against Hate Media (CAHM)

Coalition Against Hate Media

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The Mission

The Coalition Against Hate Media (CAHM) is a diverse alliance of national and local advocacy, civic, community-based, and student organizations and community leaders whose mission is to promote equality and balanced representation. We denounce messages of hate, bigotry, and discrimination against people based upon race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or religious background; and we actively hold media companies accountable for seeking to benefit from the promotion of discrimination, violence, and hate.

The Movement

In January 2005, an alliance of advocacy, civic, and student organizations, elected officials, and community leaders from across the country joined together to form the Coalition Against Hate Media (CAHM) and to denounce Emmis Communications, Hot 97 (WQHT-FM 97.1), and “Miss Jones in the Morning Show” for their role in producing, promoting, distributing and repeatedly broadcasting the derogatory 'Tsunami Song.'

Under strong public pressure, Emmis Communications, issued an apology, dismissed producer Rick Delgado and radio host Todd Lynn, and pledged a donation of one million dollars to a tsunami relief fund. While these were positive first steps, the Coalition felt that Emmis Communications needed to take further remedial action for their role in dehumanizing Asians, Asian Americans, Africans and the millions of victims of the South Asian tsunami, denigrating the victims in the name of God, and insulting humanity. Emmis Communications needed to be held accountable for not only for the 'Tsunami Song', but for also producing demeaning programs such as 'Smackfest'; and for their hosts' continued use of profanity, obscenities, and racially and gender derogatory statements against women and people of color.

The Coalition continues its work in fighting 'hate media.' In March 2005, CAHM played a major role in responding to the offensive comments by The Jersey Guys on Millennium Radio Group's New Jersey 101.5 FM (WKXW-FM 105.1). Currently, we are responding to the sale of racist t-shirts by Spencer Gifts; to the 'ching-chong' parody broadcast by Adam Carolla on Viacom's CBS Radio; and to the racially derogatory language and programming by the Star and Buc Wild program on Clear Channel's 'Power' stations.