Media bias against Muslims remains as prevalent today as in 1997

Evidence

If the point of departure for identifying Islamophobia in practice is the presence of ‘Muslim or Islamic identifiers’ (Allen 2010: 62), then reporting on Islam and Muslims in the British press offers plentiful food for thought. Media and its bias against Muslims occupied considerable attention in the 1997 report, and, were the exercise of the Commission to be repeated 20 years on, it would probably find much the same today. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 610

Categorization

• SEED: A natural essay angle: whether two decades of anti-Islamophobia policy has changed British press framing at all — the corpus linguistics suggest not.
• XREF: connects to: News organizations differ in how they frame Muslim religion as a public issue — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 90; Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240; Media framing shapes American attitudes toward Islam and jihad — Asena Karipek, Portrayals of Jihad: A Cause of…, 75 (+11 more)

Related

• Ninety-one per cent of press representations of Islam were negative (similarity 0.90)
• Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims (similarity 0.88)
• News organizations differ in how they frame Muslim religion as a public issue (similarity 0.88)
• Mainstream media gave Islamophobic commentators hundreds of appearances with minimal scrutiny. (similarity 0.86)
• Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language (similarity 0.85)
• British press underrepresents Muslims and portrays them as exotic or aberrant (similarity 0.85)
• Discussion of Islamophobia in British media increased and grew more serious over time. (similarity 0.85)
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link (similarity 0.84)
• Western media coverage of ordinary Muslims stayed at 0.1 percent from 2001 to 2011 (similarity 0.84)
• Broadcast journalists frame Islamophobia as racism, unlike centre-right print journalists. (similarity 0.84)
• British press blame for radicalization shifted toward extremist Islam itself (similarity 0.84)
• Mainstream media coverage of Islam was overwhelmingly negative by 2015 (similarity 0.83)
• Yearly Islamophobia mentions in the British press nearly doubled after 2010 (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobic content has shifted from crude cartoons to globally shared narratives and institutional suspicion. (similarity 0.83)
• Sustained media focus reframed Muslim citizens as enemies of the state (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Stereotyped Muslim portrayals remain the norm despite new counterexamples #corroborates (0.90) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 540
• Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims #corroborates (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240
• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage #corroborates (0.85) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217
• Media framing shapes American attitudes toward Islam and jihad #corroborates (0.80) — Asena Karipek, Portrayals of Jihad, 75
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link #corroborates (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282
• Media discourse frames Islamophobia as increasing and institutional. #corroborates (0.80) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 630
• The media is not the origin or sole source of Islamophobia #qualifies (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 836
• Western media coverage of ordinary Muslims stayed at 0.1 percent from 2001 to 2011 #exemplifies (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 509
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. #corroborates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497
• Islamophobia operates as a marketable commodity across media forms #corroborates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 354
• Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language #corroborates (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 571
• Media and state mutually reinforce Islam-violence associations for distinct functional reasons #corroborates (0.75)
• Media mapping erased the distinction between real and imagined Muslims #complicates (0.70) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240