Framing Islam through religion rather than war yields more positive coverage

Evidence

Again, we find this to be supported by previous studies showing that Islam is not often framed in the media as a religious issue, but instead, is discussed using frames of war and terrorism (Ibrahim, 2010; Ahmed & Matthes, 2017), oppression and victimization (Mishra, 2007), and ethics, race, and politics (Bowe & Makki, 2016). This lack of religious depictions is an important critique of media coverage, with implications for public opinion and treatment of Muslims in Western society. Bleich and colleagues (2018) reported that news media coverage of Muslims and Islam that touched upon devotion as a central aspect of Islam were more positive in their portrayal of Muslims compared to articles about other aspects. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 74

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘What changes when the press treats a faith as a faith?’ — how the choice of frame, not the facts, sets the tone of coverage of a minority group.
• XREF: Connects to Said’s Orientalism and to media-framing literature on the ‘war on terror’ vocabulary.