War coverage frames terrorism as barbaric East versus civilized West.

Evidence

Dehumanization by the news media has even broader influence in shaping public policies and how foreigners are viewed. Steuter and Wills (2009) analyzed headlines in Canadian newspapers in their coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. For the most part, the media framed the war on terror as a battle between the barbaric East and the civilized West. The authors noted the stark contrast between the ideological dichotomy and the Canadian identity as respecting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusiveness. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2419

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates vault claims about how mainstream Islamophobic framing coexists with self-image of tolerance and diversity.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the finding that media headlines (the most objective-seeming genre) carry dehumanization most pervasively.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2419