Real Muslim interlocutors with genuine arguments have been erased from media coverage of Islam.

Evidence

The point about accounts such as Haddad’s is not whether in the end they are totally correct, or whether one should accept or reject them unconditionally, but the sense they give of a real interlocutor, with real arguments and real interests that have been ignored in most of the remorseless media coverage of Islam that dominates the picture today. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 34

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• Islamic studies’ marginality lets media spread racist caricatures unchecked (similarity 0.82)
• Media coverage of Islam systematically obscures Western actions against Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Media coverage of Islam succeeds through political influence, not accuracy. (similarity 0.82)
• Media coverage reduces Arabs and Muslims to oil suppliers and potential terrorists (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Every portrayal of Islam is an act of willed interpretation, not a description. (similarity 0.81)
• Individual Muslim writers are not trapped by the interpretive frame that dominates their reception (similarity 0.81)
• Evidence contradicting Muslim-misogyny frames does not alter broadcast anchor conviction. (similarity 0.80)
• A small anti-Muslim expert clique dominates US media coverage of Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Anonymous message boards enable challenges to monolithic media portrayals of Islam. (similarity 0.78)
• Academics are neutralized into status symbols by the coverage system (similarity 0.78)
• Both hostile and accurate accounts converged on Muhammad’s revelation as needing explanation (similarity 0.78)