Western media coverage of ordinary Muslims stayed at 0.1 percent from 2001 to 2011

Evidence

In a study by Media Tenor, 975,000 news stories pertaining to Islam in both Europe and the United States were analyzed. In 2001, only 2 percent of these stories focused on Muslim militants and extremists, but this figure jumped to 25 percent by 2011. In the same period, the percentage of stories devoted to ordinary Muslims remained at 0.1 percent—no change from 2001 to 2011. This study, combined with the other studies discussed in this section, demonstrates just how fixated the Western media is on constructing Islam as a religion prone to violence and extremism. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 509

Categorization

• XREF: The extinction of the ordinary Muslim from coverage parallels how the earlier chapters show Muslims being reduced to a caricatured religious category. — connects to: Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217; Media bias against Muslims remains as prevalent today as in 1997 — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 610; Ninety-one per cent of press representations of Islam were negative — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 497

Broader Connections

• Muslim-perpetrated attacks receive dramatically disproportionate news coverage #corroborates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 217