In the weeks prior to the mass killings in Rwanda, RTLM repeatedly characterized the rival Tutsis as "cockroaches".

"It was RTLM's relentless dehumanization of the 'enemy' that was adjudged as an incitement to violence," Lynch says. "The hateful messages reaching listeners across the US today are dangerous in the same way. Our own intensively mediated societies are also vulnerable to such baleful messages, if repeated often enough."
source:http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0521-13.htm