“…16 There is a 9 Speckhard (2012) 10 Weimann and Winn (1994) 11 Paletz and Schmid (1992, pp. 41, 67), Cooke (2003) 12 Brinson and Stohl (2009) 13 Shinar and Bratic (2010) 14 Jackson, Breen-Smyth, Gunning and Jarvis (2011), Rothe and Muzzatti (2004), Altheide (2009), Keen (2006, p. 98) 15 Woods (2011) 16 Chowanietz (2010), Nacos, Bloch-Elkon and Shapiro (2011, chapters 1 and 2), Schmid and Muldoon (2015), , Olivas-Luján, Harzing and McCoy (2004) tendency towards a more hierarchical orientation and authoritarianism in political debates. 17 Democratic principles, civil liberties, and human rights are undermined, 18 freedom of the press is limited, 19 and there are more hate crimes and scapegoating.…”