Ninety-one per cent of press representations of Islam were negative

Evidence

During that ‘normal week’, of the 19 national newspapers analysed, 12 were identified as having entirely negatively framed or associated representations of Islam and Muslims and, across all newspapers, 91 per cent of all representations were deemed to be negative. Almost 50 per cent of all of these referred to Muslims and/or Islam as posing a ‘threat’ whilst a further 34 per cent were related to crises. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 497

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240; Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217; The media is not the origin or sole source of Islamophobia — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 836 (+7 more)

Related

• Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims (similarity 0.90)
• Media bias against Muslims remains as prevalent today as in 1997 (similarity 0.90)
• Western media coverage of ordinary Muslims stayed at 0.1 percent from 2001 to 2011 (similarity 0.87)
• News organizations differ in how they frame Muslim religion as a public issue (similarity 0.87)
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link (similarity 0.86)
• Mainstream media gave Islamophobic commentators hundreds of appearances with minimal scrutiny. (similarity 0.85)
• 53% of Americans think that coverage of Islam and Muslims by American news organizations is generally unfair to Muslims and Islam. (similarity 0.85)
• Western media frames Islam chiefly through terrorism and women’s oppression. (similarity 0.84)
• Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language (similarity 0.84)
• Mainstream media coverage of Islam was overwhelmingly negative by 2015 (similarity 0.84)
• British press underrepresents Muslims and portrays them as exotic or aberrant (similarity 0.83)
• Broadcast journalists frame Islamophobia as racism, unlike centre-right print journalists. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage (similarity 0.82)
• Selective coverage reduces entire Muslim communities to violent militants. (similarity 0.82)
• Pejorative Muslim framing in headlines is a recurring, dangerous journalistic failure. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims #expands (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. #expands (0.82) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497
• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage #corroborates (0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217
• Retaining ‘Islamophobia’ over victim-centred terms is necessary because media negativity attaches to ‘Islam’ itself. #expands (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 614
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link #corroborates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282
• The media is not the origin or sole source of Islamophobia #qualifies (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 836
• Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language #corroborates (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 571
• News organizations differ in how they frame Muslim religion as a public issue #qualifies (0.72) — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 90
• Western media coverage of ordinary Muslims stayed at 0.1 percent from 2001 to 2011 #expands (0.72) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 509