A mainstream news watchdog awarded top honor to conspiratorial anti-Muslim TV.

Evidence

“I can’t bear to watch the news, especially Fox.” Jihan was fully inducted into American culture and was familiar with the leading network that foments popular zeal against Muslims in the United States and beyond its borders. The most potent of the mainstream media platforms where presidents, congresswomen and -men, and other state actors push rhetoric that endorses the notion that Islam is wed to terror, and where hatemongers are emboldened to take up arms in the crusade against its adherents. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 341 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

One can make the case that without the media’s attraction to those who traffic in professional Islamophobia, we would know little about Daniel Pipes, Geert Wilders, or Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This begs a larger question, one that is the focus of the next chapter: how much does the media contribute to the problem of Islamophobia? — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 493 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fox News functions as the leading platform broadcasting state anti-Muslim rhetoric — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 341; The media’s attraction materially amplifies professional Islamophobes’ reach — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 493

Broader Connections

• Fox News functions as the leading platform broadcasting state anti-Muslim rhetoric #exemplifies (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 341
• The media’s attraction materially amplifies professional Islamophobes’ reach #exemplifies (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 493