Western media covered Muslim-majority countries nearly only through a violence lens

Evidence

By 2007, there was ten times more coverage of conflicts and violence in Muslim-majority countries than of education, culture, or economic development in those same countries. Coverage of the Middle East was almost exclusively through the lens of conflict, militancy, and political extremism. In stark contrast, Jews and Christians were represented in the context of peaceful religious activities. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 753

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the soundscape book’s asymmetry principle: what a system foregrounds reveals its bias — media’s selective amplification vs. erasure. — connects to: Western media favored liberal pro-Western voices inside the uprisings; Media amplify disasters near the West while ignoring equivalent harms in the global South — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 125; Western media framed the Egyptian uprising through the 1989 Berlin Wall template — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 229