One activist’s loaded label framed media coverage of the mosque controversy

Evidence

Most notorious were protests against the Cordoba Initiative’s plan in 2010 to build a Muslim community center in an abandoned building two and a half blocks from ground zero in New York City. The term ground zero mosque was coined by the right-wing activist Pamela Geller soon after the plan was announced. It was then picked up and used by the news media, giving the impression that the combined mosque and community center would literally be built on the site of the former World Trade Center. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1374 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A fabricated mosque statistic spread from far right into mainstream media; Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497; The false eighty-percent-mosque claim circulated unchallenged across mainstream media — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 559 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• News media adoption of an activist’s loaded label mislabeled the build site #corroborates (0.97) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1374