Newspaper coverage of Muslims fell by roughly half after Trump’s election.

Evidence

Before President Trump began his election campaign, the marginal percentage of newspapers that mentioned a Muslim individual was 21.73% and 60% for mentioning religion. After President Trump was elected in 2016, the probability dropped to 13.32% for Muslim individual and 32.24% for mentioning religious frames. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 65

Categorization

• CANDY: Two clean before-and-after percentages (60% to 32%, 21.7% to 13.3%) that make a striking, quotable contrast in any conversation about media and politics.
• XREF: Connects to scholarship on the ‘Trump effect’ in coverage of marginalized groups and to agenda-setting research on candidate rhetoric.