The Boston Marathon bombing overshadowed a deadlier white supremacist attack in coverage

Evidence

In one example, the GSU researchers noted that the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing—which killed a total of three people—received almost 20 percent of all media coverage relating to American terror attacks in that entire five-year period. In contrast, media coverage of the 2012 white supremacist terrorist massacre at the aforementioned Oak Creek, Wisconsin Sikh gurdwara temple—which killed twice as many people as the Boston Marathon attack (six victims)—received only 4 percent of media coverage related to terror attacks during the period studied, even though it had twice as many fatalities. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete case data for the capstone’s media-framing section; the Sikh gurdwara being misidentified as a Muslim target is a recurring thread. — connects to: White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480; Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217

Related

• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage (similarity 0.83)
• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. #corroborates (0.65) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480
• Whiteness is categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism regardless of evidence #expands (0.55)