Fear-driven Muslim news stories are commercially lucrative for national newspapers

Evidence

I also found a strong consensus amongst national journalists about the commercial value of stories about Muslim that generated fear and anxiety amongst news reading audiences. The demand for these types of stories was seen to be driven by existing prejudices held by audiences against Muslims, and further stoked by the newspapers. — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 37

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: ‘The Fear Economy’ — how anti-Muslim panic became a reliable revenue stream for British newspapers, with the demand/supply feedback loop as the spine.