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Media Bias in Coverage of Terrorism in United States
Introduction
In the United States media coverage of violence and terrorism is highly selective and biased. All of our letter writers for hire take turns in checking "confirmed facts" to make sure the misinformation doesn't go further than that. You can find edited articles at https://300writers.com/hire-letter-writer.html.
- Highlighting violence by persons from Muslim or Arab communities.
- Overlooking or minimizing violence by persons from right-wing or supermacist movements.
- Framing violence as primarily caused by mental illness or "alienation" without probing ideological, theological, or socio-political movement factors.
Bigoted suggestions that violence is central to Islamic theology is a core theme of numerous right-wing pundits as detailed in FAIR’s 2008 report on “Smearcasting.”
In fact, there are more incidents of violence in the U.S. perpetrated by domestic right-wing fanatics including white supremacists and Christian anti-abortion activists.
The resources listed on this page document these contentions.
Annual US Government Statistics on Ethnoviolence ("hate crimes")
FAIR’s 2008 report on “Smearcasting.”) {offsite}
Reports by Mustafa E. Gurbuz
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Right-Wing Violence Eclipses that Perpetrated by Muslims
Overview:
Eric Boehlert, Another Right-Wing Extremist Terror Arrest; Fox News Not Interested In Assigning Blame, Media Matters, May 7, 2013.
Prompted by the arrest of a Muslim suspect, Fox News has spent weeks demonizing Islam by assigning collective blame, as well as targeting Muslims who travel here to study. But yet another far-right, anti-government plot to possibly kill law enforcement officials? At Fox News, that's not a story that draws much concern, especially not from its primetime talkers.
It's true Fox has included a number of on-air mentions about the Minnesota terror news during its daytime programming. But what makes Fox's ho-hum coverage noteworthy is the contrast to its interest in making sweeping generalizations about the Islamic community when terror plots have included Muslims Muslim suspects (or, as we saw with the misguided post-Boston obsession with the "Saudi national," Muslim victims).
It was a Fox talker who suggested in the wake of the Boston terror attacks that American mosques be bugged and other Constitutional rights for Muslims be eliminated. And it was on Fox that viewers were recently told, "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorist are Muslims."
Reports From Mother Jones MagazineGuide to Mass Shootings in America
http://homegrown.newamerica.net/overview_nonjihadists
Reports by David Neiwert
Conservatives are trying to whitewash far-right terrorists out of our memories
April 20, 2009
... it couldn't be clearer that it is concerned almost exclusively with far-right extremists: neo-Nazis, skinheads, anti-abortion bombers, and their assorted fellow travelers. What the teeth-gnashing from the right suggests is that they recognize themselves, and their influence, all too readily in the thugs and terrorists who take their beliefs and twist them into something violent.
Violent Rhetoric and the Mentally Ill
January 16, 2011.
Put simply (and colloquially): There's been a lot of crazy talk from the American Right in recent years. And crazy talk — especially condoned at the highest social levels — has a powerful effect on people who are already crazy.
The Tea Party's Armed Extremists
November 22, 2011
In places like rural Montana, the Tea Party is working hand-in-glove with Patriot movement radicals — many of whom have close ties to white supremacists and anti-government armed militias
Reports by Sara Robinson
The Far Right’s First 100 Days: Shifting Into Overdrive
April 29, 2009
The far right wing has been laying the groundwork for violent action for decades. Long before they turn dangerous, political and religious groups take their first step down that road by adopting a worldview that justifies eventual violent action. The particulars of the narrative vary, but the basic themes are always the same. First: their story is apocalyptic, insisting that the end of the world as we’ve known it is near. Second: it divides the world into a Good-versus-Evil/Us-versus-Them dualism that encourages the group to interpret even small personal, social, or political events as major battles in a Great Cosmic Struggle — a habit of mind that leads the group to demonize anyone who disagrees with them. This struggle also encourages members to invest everyday events with huge existential meaning, and as a result sometimes overreact wildly to very mundane stuff.
State of the Union: A Status Report on the Far Right
January 28, 2010
There are more points of differentiation, but you get the point. There are two groups here: one comprising our perennial crop of evergreen wingnuts, and another that’s only recently decamped from the center right and moved hard right to join them.
Glenn Beck’s Common Nonsense: An Interview With Alex Zaitchik
May 23-24, 2010
America has this long tradition of twisted, odd, widely beloved and yet darkly dangerous right-wing cultural impresarios that pop up out of our landscape like cultural tornadoes, leaving huge swaths of derangement and destruction in their wake
Part One - | - Part Two
Anti-Choice Intimidation, Violence, and Terrorism
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Anti-Choice Violence and Intimidation
January 1, 2013
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/media/fact-sheets/abortion-anti-choice-violence.pdf
Reports from Muslim American Advocacy Groups
Jessica Huseman
Eric Bolling: 'The Five' Host and His Co-Hosts Promote Profiling
http://www.policymic.com/articles/37803/eric-bolling-the-five-host-and-his-co-hosts-promote-profiling
undated circa may 2013
Shwetika Baijal
7 Worst Islamophobic Reactions to the Boston Bombing
undated circa may 2013
http://www.policymic.com/articles/37123/7-worst-islamophobic-reactions-to-the-boston-bombing
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