After Trump’s election, fewer newspapers framed Islam coverage religiously

Evidence

Over the last 20 years Muslims have received a disproportionate amount of news media attention. In 2017 they were again thrust into the spotlight when the Trump administration issued a travel ban blocking entry from seven predominately- Muslim countries. With our hand coding of over 900 newspaper articles and mixed modeling techniques, we examine the newspaper rhetoric surrounding Muslims before and during the Trump administration and across US states. … We also reveal that higher state-level religious salience was associated with more newspapers referencing religious claimsmakers in Islam-related discussions. Other state-level political and religious characteristics had no effect on the use of religious elements or Muslims claimsmakers. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 14

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to work on media framing of Islam and to studies of how Trump-era rhetoric shifted public discourse around Muslims.
• QUESTION: Why would political context reduce religious framing rather than intensify it — did coverage shift toward security/legal frames?