Baroness Warsi criticises anti-Islamic Uk press.

[spindrift]

when they get it wrong they will:roll:

 

You think the Express "Muslim plot to kill the pope" story was true?

 

Despite the fact it, errr, wasn't?

[Greybeard]

Warsi mentioned the lies printed in the press about muslims, including the ridiculous "Plot to kill the pope" pack of lies.

 

Do you think newspapers should print lies that demonise muslims, using completely made up stories?

 

Newspapers print lies about all sections of our society. The Left, the Right, the Unions, the Unemployed, Public Service employees etc. etc.

 

Have you some particular 'lie' in mind to illustrate your claim ?

[mj.scuba]

For Warsi

Against Warsi

 

Both quite predictable responses. The Guardian article is hilarious, he agrees with Warsi that much that he even pens a fictional dinner party just to illustrate the kind of conversation he thinks might happen at a dinner party in order to 'prove' her right.

 

I'd have thought journalists are regular dinner party goers, funny how none of them have written about these dinner party conversations before, being as they're so prevelant.

[newboy2011]

You think the Express "Muslim plot to kill the pope" story was true?

 

Despite the fact it, errr, wasn't?

 

really? it was just a joke then? they were having fun? a debate?

[spindrift]

Newspapers print lies about all sections of our society. The Left, the Right, the Unions, the Unemployed, Public Service employees etc. etc.

 

Have you some particular 'lie' in mind to illustrate your claim ?

 

 

 

A "torrent" of negative stories has been revealed by a study of the portrayal of Muslims and Islam in the media, according to a report published yesterday.

 

Research into one week's news coverage showed that 91% of articles in national newspapers about Muslims were negative. The London mayor, Ken Livingstone, who commissioned the study, said the findings were a "damning indictment" of the media and urged editors and programme makers to review the way they portray Muslims.

 

"The overall picture presented by the media is that Islam is profoundly different from and a threat to the west," he said. "There is a scale of imbalance which no fair-minded person would think is right." Only 4% of the 352 articles studied were positive, he said.

 

Livingstone said the findings showed a "hostile and scaremongering attitude" towards Islam and likened the coverage to the way the left was attacked by national newspapers in the early 1980s. "The charge is that there are virtually no positive or balanced images of Islam being portrayed," he said. "I think there is a demonisation of Islam going on which damages community relations and creates alarm among Muslims."

 

Among examples in the study was a report which claimed that Christmas was being banned in one area because it offended Muslims, which researchers said was "inaccurate and alarmist". The report said that Muslims in Britain were sometimes depicted as a threat to traditional British values, and the coverage weakened government attempts to reduce extremism. The report is an amalgam of research projects individually prepared by members of a panel. Some research, examining published newspaper articles and reporting the experiences of Muslim journalists, involved Hugh Muir, of the Guardian.

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/14/pressandpublishing.religion

 

Imagine if you picked up a newspaper to discover the following headline, "Gay sickos' Maddie kidnap shock". What would your response be?

 

Or perhaps if you read, "Christmas is banned: it offends Jews". Or even, "Black people tell us how to run our schools".

 

You would probably be offended and outraged in equal measure – and rightly so. In modern Britain, it is no longer acceptable for the media to engage in such egregiously inaccurate or recklessly bigoted coverage of minority groups.

 

There is, however, one glaring exception to this rule – Muslims. As writer and broadcaster Peter Oborne points out in tonight's Dispatches on Channel 4, these rather shocking headlines have already appeared in our national press, but only in relation to Britain's Muslim minority. In the wake of 7/7, the press has been given free rein to effectively demonise the Islamic faith and its two million adherents in this country.

 

Dispatches commissioned Cardiff University's school of journalism to carry out a unique study of the content and, above all, context of almost a thousand articles written about Islam and Muslims since 2000. The Cardiff researchers discovered that over two-thirds of stories identified Muslims either as a source of problems or as a threat – not just in the context of terrorism but on cultural issues too. In fact, this year for the first time, the volume of stories focusing on cultural differences overtook those related to terrorism. Over the entire period, more than one in four stories contained the rather pernicious idea that Islam is dangerous, backward or irrational.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/07/channel4.islam

[newboy2011]

or was it just what they wanted to do? or what they wished would happen?

[newboy2011]

A "torrent" of negative stories has been revealed by a study of the portrayal of Muslims and Islam in the media, according to a report published yesterday.

 

Research into one week's news coverage showed that 91% of articles in national newspapers about Muslims were negative. The London mayor, Ken Livingstone, who commissioned the study, said the findings were a "damning indictment" of the media and urged editors and programme makers to review the way they portray Muslims.

 

"The overall picture presented by the media is that Islam is profoundly different from and a threat to the west," he said. "There is a scale of imbalance which no fair-minded person would think is right." Only 4% of the 352 articles studied were positive, he said.

 

Livingstone said the findings showed a "hostile and scaremongering attitude" towards Islam and likened the coverage to the way the left was attacked by national newspapers in the early 1980s. "The charge is that there are virtually no positive or balanced images of Islam being portrayed," he said. "I think there is a demonisation of Islam going on which damages community relations and creates alarm among Muslims."

 

Among examples in the study was a report which claimed that Christmas was being banned in one area because it offended Muslims, which researchers said was "inaccurate and alarmist". The report said that Muslims in Britain were sometimes depicted as a threat to traditional British values, and the coverage weakened government attempts to reduce extremism. The report is an amalgam of research projects individually prepared by members of a panel. Some research, examining published newspaper articles and reporting the experiences of Muslim journalists, involved Hugh Muir, of the Guardian.

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/14/pressandpublishing.religion

 

Imagine if you picked up a newspaper to discover the following headline, "Gay sickos' Maddie kidnap shock". What would your response be?

 

Or perhaps if you read, "Christmas is banned: it offends Jews". Or even, "Black people tell us how to run our schools".

 

You would probably be offended and outraged in equal measure – and rightly so. In modern Britain, it is no longer acceptable for the media to engage in such egregiously inaccurate or recklessly bigoted coverage of minority groups.

 

There is, however, one glaring exception to this rule – Muslims. As writer and broadcaster Peter Oborne points out in tonight's Dispatches on Channel 4, these rather shocking headlines have already appeared in our national press, but only in relation to Britain's Muslim minority. In the wake of 7/7, the press has been given free rein to effectively demonise the Islamic faith and its two million adherents in this country.

 

Dispatches commissioned Cardiff University's school of journalism to carry out a unique study of the content and, above all, context of almost a thousand articles written about Islam and Muslims since 2000. The Cardiff researchers discovered that over two-thirds of stories identified Muslims either as a source of problems or as a threat – not just in the context of terrorism but on cultural issues too. In fact, this year for the first time, the volume of stories focusing on cultural differences overtook those related to terrorism. Over the entire period, more than one in four stories contained the rather pernicious idea that Islam is dangerous, backward or irrational.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/07/channel4.islam

 

this says it all.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef0rouSwueA

[Rupert_Baehr]

Surely, 'all publicity is good publicity'.

 

When was Warsi last in the news?

[mj.scuba]

It can't all be blamed on the press, all the negative stories. Some stories might be false, and that is the fault of the publisher and they should be punished for it, but unless a majority of them are false or made up, what about the rest that are true?

 

There was recently a series on Channel4 in which folk were given five minutes of fame to talk about their faith etc. Of the Muslims to appear, a number of them expressed some alarming views. Now that was an open opportunity given to them, but they scored an own goal with it. Can't blame anyboy else for it.

[Bloomdido]

To survive, all religions need to recruit and control their followers. Without such structures in place, the faith will die or dilute like so many have. Islam seems to me to be particularly nasty in its inflexibility and dogma. In terms of survival, it is like a virus and seems to be spreading, where christianity is in decline.

 

Can anyone be a moderate muslim? I'm watching what happens in Tunisia now there is a power vacuum. Will it become more 'moderate' or will the hardliners get in there and have religious police and ban women driving like saudi, oh and the president of Iran has banned Valenttine's Day.