A prime minister can redirect global media coverage from terrorist to victims

Evidence

The world responded. Profiles of tribute and touching commemorations were made by millions of people around the world in the days that followed. They did so on social media platforms, the modern forums of popular speech and protest, and in parks, squares, and schools. Mainstream media outlets—which had dedicated their pages to profiling the terrorist in the wake of his carnage—also turned a new page, honoring the victims and reclaiming the media terrain they had dedicated to the terrorist. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 983

Categorization

• SEED: The contrast between profiling the killer and honoring victims after a massacre is a structural news-media pattern worth an article: how coverage shifts when a figure of authority reframes the narrative.