Counter-claims lacking emotive evidence are drowned out by visual spectacle in media

Evidence

One of the consequences of this process, according to Corn, was that the ‘Sino-Islamic connection has been largely ignored by European elites too busy indulging in anti-American posturing’. Corn offered no evidence to prove any of these assertions but, in the parallel intellectual universe of Eurabia, the suspension of disbelief makes anything possible and this ‘Sino-Islamic connection’ may well herald a new chapter in Eurabian discourse with overtones of the nineteenth century ‘Yellow Peril’. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 86 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: New media testimony can counter mainstream news abandonment of slow-violence coverage — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 846; Events lacking significance can be magnified by the media. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 221; Scientific and popular media amplified myth despite direct contrary observation — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 606 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Conspiracy discourse substitutes suspension of disbelief for evidence. #complicates (0.72) — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 86