Hostile portrayals of Muslims are a normalized starting premise inside newsrooms

Evidence

While many of the national journalists I interviewed were critical about the way Muslims were portrayed, their accounts highlight how normalised these representations have become as the starting point on Muslims both within the press industry and for its perceived audiences. — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 62

Categorization

• QUESTION: If journalists privately object yet reproduce the frame anyway, what would actually break the normalization — union pressure, audience data, or generational turnover?
• XREF: Connects to White Noise’s treatment of ambient media dread as background noise nobody interrogates because everyone already assumes it.