Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage
Evidence
Yet there is more than anecdotal evidence to indicate a strong double standard when it comes to identifying terrorism. A 2019 University of Alabama study found that terrorist attacks committed by Muslims currently receive 357 percent more media coverage than those committed by white men. In another media study by Georgia State University, researchers analyzed terrorist attacks in the United States from the years 2011 to 2015 and found that there was a 449 percent increase in media coverage when the perpetrator was Muslim compared to when the perpetrator was a white non-Muslim. This same GSU study found that Muslims committed only 12 percent of attacks during the five-year period studied, but received over 40 percent of total news media coverage during that same time (an over-representation of over 340 percent). — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217
Categorization
- XREF: Quantified double standard pairs well with the 2019 case where only one of two mass murders was labeled terrorism, and with Kumar’s media-framing work. — connects to: Western media frames Islam chiefly through terrorism and women’s oppression. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 499; Mainstream media misattributed the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to Muslims. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 504; Selective coverage reduces entire Muslim communities to violent militants. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 498 (+13 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217
Related
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- Western media frames Islam chiefly through terrorism and women’s oppression. (similarity 0.85)
- Western media coverage of ordinary Muslims stayed at 0.1 percent from 2001 to 2011 (similarity 0.85)
- Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link (similarity 0.84)
- Powell’s study concludes that white, non-Muslim men who commit domestic terrorism or other mass shootings are frequently described as being ‘mentally unstable,’ whereas Muslim terrorists are… (similarity 0.83)
- Selective coverage reduces entire Muslim communities to violent militants. (similarity 0.83)
- Powell’s study also claims that the media is much more likely to blame religion for the actions of Muslim terrorists than for white non-Muslim terrorists. This is evident in CNN’s description of… (similarity 0.83)
- Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims (similarity 0.83)
- The Boston Marathon bombing overshadowed a deadlier white supremacist attack in coverage (similarity 0.83)
- The media codes only certain groups’ violence as religiously motivated (similarity 0.82)
- Ninety-one per cent of press representations of Islam were negative (similarity 0.82)
- Terrorists achieve media immortality while their Muslim victims remain anonymous (similarity 0.82)
- Western media coverage of Muslim militants rose twelvefold while ordinary Muslim coverage stayed flat (similarity 0.82)
- Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language (similarity 0.81)