Media coverage of Islam systematically obscures Western actions against Muslims

Evidence

Local and concrete circumstances are thus obliterated. In other words, covering Islam is a one-sided activity that obscures what “we” do, and highlights instead what Muslims and Arabs by their very flawed nature are. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 22

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader argument in Covering Islam about how representation of the rest of the world is constructed; also resonates with Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model and Milgrom’s point about information being controlled and shaped by gatekeepers. — connects to: Mainstream media gave Islamophobic commentators hundreds of appearances with minimal scrutiny.

Related

• Media coverage reduces Arabs and Muslims to oil suppliers and potential terrorists (similarity 0.88)
• Mainstream media gave Islamophobic commentators hundreds of appearances with minimal scrutiny. (similarity 0.88)
• Islamic studies’ marginality lets media spread racist caricatures unchecked (similarity 0.86)
• Media coverage of Islam succeeds through political influence, not accuracy. (similarity 0.85)
• Media portrayals of Islam perpetuate hostility rather than convey understanding (similarity 0.83)
• Mainstream media coverage of Islam was overwhelmingly negative by 2015 (similarity 0.83)
• Every portrayal of Islam is an act of willed interpretation, not a description. (similarity 0.83)
• Media Islam images derive from geopolitical experts, not academic scholarship (similarity 0.83)
• Mainstream American media saturated prime-time television with generic Muslim caricatures. (similarity 0.82)
• Western media frames Islam chiefly through terrorism and women’s oppression. (similarity 0.82)
• Western media coverage of ordinary Muslims stayed at 0.1 percent from 2001 to 2011 (similarity 0.82)
• A small anti-Muslim expert clique dominates US media coverage of Islam (similarity 0.82)
• Real Muslim interlocutors with genuine arguments have been erased from media coverage of Islam. (similarity 0.82)
• Said judged Western media coverage of Muslim executions as worse than the executions (similarity 0.82)
• Academics are neutralized into status symbols by the coverage system (similarity 0.81)