Analyzing news text alone cannot explain how anti-Muslim framing gets produced.

Evidence

Studies of newspaper coverage have been invaluable in providing an insight into the anti-Muslim bias within the British press but cannot provide direct empirical evidence about how news stories about Muslims came to be reported in a particular way, or the tensions that might underlie how a story has been framed. The study makes an important contribution to this missing insight by shifting the focus of analysis from newspaper coverage to those who produce this content, that is, journalists themselves. — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 8

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: why media-effects scholarship needs to move upstream to the newsroom and the production choices behind loaded framing.