Self-awareness of bias lets journalists challenge entrenched anti-Muslim newsroom narratives

Evidence

The study highlights the role that journalists can play towards the accommodation of difference in a pluralistic, multicultural society. It suggests that an awareness of their own potential role in perpetuating media biases and inequalities can lead journalists to become active agents in challenging the entrenched practices within their own newsrooms that reproduce and perpetuate anti-Muslim narratives. Without this localised connection and inclusive social imaginary, the national journalists were less likely to intervene and more likely to succumb to the reproduction of dominant (often hegemonic) cultural narratives about Muslims. — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 67

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes critiques of hegemonic representation familiar from Said’s orientalism and from The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s narrator caught inside Western frames about Muslims. — connects to: Journalists’ political biases shape which protest demands they report — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 414
• SEED: Angle: how self-reflexive journalism training might work as an intervention into hegemonic narrative reproduction, using newsroom ethnography.