Ardern’s twelve-word elegy countered the media’s erasure of Muslim victims

Evidence

Crucial to any analysis of the media’s portrayal of Muslims and Islam, therefore, is an understanding of what scholars refer to as “framing.” The sociologist Michael Schudson summarizes media framing in this way: “Journalists normally work with materials that real people and real events provide. But by selecting, highlighting, framing, shading, and shaping in reportage, they create the impression that real people—readers and viewers—then take to be real and to which they respond in their lives.” The news media creates frames of interpretation through which we understand “reality,” but the reality in question is a construction that reflects the biases and ideologies of individual journalists and the media organizations that employ them. The reality created by the media, moreover, is often constructed to attract consumers and to keep a newspaper, news website, or television network in business. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Ardern’s refusal to name the terrorist redirected collective mourning toward the fifty-one victims; Mainstream media reversed course and honored Christchurch victims rather than the terrorist; Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497 (+1 more)

Related

• Terrorists achieve media immortality while their Muslim victims remain anonymous (similarity 0.86)
• Mainstream media reversed course and honored Christchurch victims rather than the terrorist (similarity 0.82)
• Ardern’s refusal to name the terrorist redirected collective mourning toward the fifty-one victims (similarity 0.80)
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. (similarity 0.79)
• Media coverage humanized the Christchurch killer but anonymized his fifty-one victims (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Rare positive portrayals of Muslims cannot offset the dominant dehumanizing narrative #exemplifies (0.65)
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. #exemplifies (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497