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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed
This is just awful but sadly, I think we are going to start seeing a lot more of this. The media has hyped some people up to hysteria. According to a new study https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=2928138 the media give considerably more coverage to terrorist attacks by Muslims than to attacks by anyone else. Between 2011 and 2015 in the United States there have been 89 terrorist attacks committed by different perpetrators. Muslims perpetrated 12.4 per cent of those attacks.
The researchers then searched for media coverage of each attack from US-based print sources in the LexisNexis Academic database of newspaper articles. Since many Americans get their news online, they also looked at coverage from CNN.com.
Of the 89 attacks, 24 did not receive any media coverage from the sources they examined. The small proportion of attacks that were by Muslims — only 12 per cent — received 44 per cent of the news coverage. In only five per cent of all the terrorist attacks, the perpetrator was both Muslim and foreign-born — but those four attacks got 32 per cent of all the media coverage.
"US media outlets disproportionately emphasise the smaller number of terrorist attacks by Muslims — leading Americans to have an exaggerated sense of that threat," the researchers said. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7627601.html |
I would be interested to know the numbers of victims in these attacks. 911 as we all know involved thousands - nearly 3000 died and 6000 were injured.
A terrorist attack is a terrorist attack and abhorrent fullstop but the scale of such attacks is relevant.
ISIS are killing thousands across the world and it won't stop. Given this it's hardly surprising they are more newsworthy.