Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective Bleich Erik
Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective Bleich Erik An examination of how American newspaper articles on Muslims are strikingly negative by any measure.For decades, scholars…
Specifikacia Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective Bleich Erik
Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective Bleich Erik
An examination of how American newspaper articles on Muslims are strikingly negative by any measure.For decades, scholars and observers have criticized negative media portrayals of Muslims and Islam. In Covering Muslims, Erik Bleich and A. Yet most of these critiques are limited by their focus on one specific location, a limited time period, or a single outlet.
The authors demonstrate conclusively that coverage of Muslims is remarkably negative by any measure. Maurits van der Veen present the first systematic, large-scale analysis of American newspaper coverage of Muslims through comparisons across groups, time, countries, and topics. They show that American newspapers have been consistently negative across the two-decade period between 1996 and 2016 and that articles on Muslims are more negative than those touching on groups as diverse as Catholics, Jews,