Media underreport terrorist attacks when the perpetrators are non-Muslim

Evidence

The research’s findings demonstrate the uneven coverage of terrorist incidents in the media (Schmuck 2021). Editorials gave greatest publicity to terrorist acts as the Manchester explosion, Charlie Hebdo (Downing and Dron 2022), Nice Attack (Downing 2019), and Paris attacks (Mansoor et al. 2022). … Because non-Muslims were responsible for these terrorist assaults (Sufi and Yasmin 2022; Latif 2024a, b, c, d, e, f), there was a bias in the world press’s underreporting of the incidents (Roach et al. 2020). — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 89

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The mechanism behind the ‘Muslim terrorist’ frame is exposed by its negative image: attention tracks perpetrator religion, not violence level, so the stereotype is manufactured by omission as much as by coverage.
• SEED: Angle: ‘The Attacks You Never Heard Of’ — a piece built from a ledger of under-covered non-Muslim attacks (Quebec mosque, Finsbury) against over-covered Muslim-perpetrated ones, showing the frame is constructed by subtraction.
• XREF: connects to: News coverage massively overrepresents violent over nonviolent claim-making. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 225