Media portrayals of Islam perpetuate hostility rather than convey understanding
Evidence
The misrepresentations and distortions committed in the portrayal of Islam today argue neither a genuine desire to understand nor a willingness to listen and see what there is to see and listen to. Far from being naive or pragmatic accounts of Islam, the images and processes by which the media has delivered Islam for consideration to the Western consumer of news perpetuate hostility and ignorance — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 65
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the reader’s other reading on manufacturing consent — Said explicitly cites Chomsky and Herman’s Manufacturing Consent here. — connects to: Media commentators framed Muslim soldiers as programmed by religion, ignoring war-complicity motives. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 609
Related
- Media coverage of Islam systematically obscures Western actions against Muslims (similarity 0.83)
- Media and state both profit from perpetuating the Islam-violence association. (similarity 0.81)
- Media coverage of Islam succeeds through political influence, not accuracy. (similarity 0.80)
- Every portrayal of Islam is an act of willed interpretation, not a description. (similarity 0.80)
- Media Islam images derive from geopolitical experts, not academic scholarship (similarity 0.80)
- Media splits Muslims into good and bad based on US strategic interests (similarity 0.79)
- Media coverage reduces Arabs and Muslims to oil suppliers and potential terrorists (similarity 0.79)
- Islamic studies’ marginality lets media spread racist caricatures unchecked (similarity 0.78)