why would they be targeted for aniluation. it lead to the question to why would people want to kill them? it was coupled with other questions when i put them together lead me down the path of mass media. one other incident with -- do you remember in the 1990's there was an emergence of a new kind of talk radio they we hadn't heard before. we had mostly straight ahead public affairs on the television and the newspaper. we had the emergence of emotional, very kind of polarizing mad mia emerge. i had gone them to see my parents in oklahoma, and my dad had been upset and angry and i could hardly talk to him anymore. and i couldn't figure out what was going on. what had gotten in to my dad? it was almost like we lost my father. we couldn't talk about anything that ho to scare do with politics. we got in the car and he turned on the radio and it was one of these stations with one of the hosts that likes to blame one side for everything, calls them names, and i said, dad, do you mind if we turn that down while i'm in the car. he said