Terrorists achieve media immortality while their Muslim victims remain anonymous

Evidence

Crucial to any analysis of the media’s portrayal of Muslims and Islam, therefore, is an understanding of what scholars refer to as “framing.” The sociologist Michael Schudson summarizes media framing in this way: “Journalists normally work with materials that real people and real events provide. But by selecting, highlighting, framing, shading, and shaping in reportage, they create the impression that real people—readers and viewers—then take to be real and to which they respond in their lives.” The news media creates frames of interpretation through which we understand “reality,” but the reality in question is a construction that reflects the biases and ideologies of individual journalists and the media organizations that employ them. The reality created by the media, moreover, is often constructed to attract consumers and to keep a newspaper, news website, or television network in business. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497 (#expands, via linked claim)

This discourse has been aided by the many images in the media of Muslims committing acts of violence or terrorism. The list of events is quite long and, on the surface, appears to reinforce the link between Islam and violence: the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 to 1981, the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole bombing in 2000, the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the Madrid and London train bombings in 2004 and 2005, the shootings in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, and the beheading of Western journalists by ISIS in 2014. Moreover, when one moves beyond individual episodes and takes into account the ongoing violent conflicts involving Muslims in the Middle East, it seems that Muslims are guilty as charged. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Nearly 13 million Muslims killed since the War on Terror remain entirely unremembered; Mainstream media reversed course and honored Christchurch victims rather than the terrorist; Representations of Muslims as monsters persist despite statistical evidence against them (+2 more)

Related

• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link (similarity 0.88)
• Media frames Muslim terrorists as religion-driven simpletons while psychologizing non-Muslim perpetrators (similarity 0.86)
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. (similarity 0.86)
• Ardern’s twelve-word elegy countered the media’s erasure of Muslim victims (similarity 0.86)
• Environmental framing made Muslim violence seem causally inevitable (similarity 0.85)
• Western media frames Islam chiefly through terrorism and women’s oppression. (similarity 0.84)
• Muslims become memorable in Western media almost only as perpetrators of violence (similarity 0.84)
• The media codes only certain groups’ violence as religiously motivated (similarity 0.83)
• Received portrayals of Islam resist correction and reabsorb facts into a fixed framework (similarity 0.83)
• Media coverage humanizes Muslims as perpetrators but erases them as victims (similarity 0.82)
• Ninety-one per cent of press representations of Islam were negative (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage (similarity 0.82)
• Terrorists receive instant biographical prominence from the media coverage they engineered (similarity 0.81)
• Disproportionate media coverage reifies fear and mistrust of Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Representations of Muslims as monsters persist despite statistical evidence against them #expands (0.65)
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. #expands (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497
• Media coverage of Muslim violence superficially supports an Islam-violence link #qualifies (0.55) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 282