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Computers - Hardware Published date: July 5, 2017

Terror attacks carried out by Muslims receive more than five times as much media coverage as those carried out by non-Muslims in the United States, according to an academic study.


 


 


 


Analysis of coverage of all terrorist attacks in the US between 2011 and 2015 found there was a 449 per cent increase in media attention when the perpetrator was Muslim.Web Explainer Video Production Muslims committed just 12.4 per cent of attacks during the period studied but received 41.4 per cent of news coverage, the survey foundThe authors said the finding suggests the media is making people disproportionately fearful of Muslim terrorists.


 


Scientists studied US newspaper coverage of every terrorist attack on American soil and counted up the total number of articles dedicated to each attack.


 


 


 


They found that the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which was carried out by two Muslim attackers and killed three people, received almost 20 per cent of all coverage relating to US terror attacks in the five-year period.

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