Western media coverage of Muslim militants rose twelvefold while ordinary Muslim coverage stayed flat

Evidence

In 2001, 2 percent of all news stories in the Western media presented images of Muslim militants, while just over 0.1 percent presented stories of ordinary Muslims. In 2011, the numbers were 25 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively. The net result over the ten-year period was a significant increase in coverage of Muslim militants but no increase in the coverage of ordinary Muslims. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 38

Categorization

• SEED: A concrete quantified example of how media salience determines who counts as a threat — angle for an essay on visibility bias.