Abstract
Most societies in Western World has formulated a premature assumptions toward Islam due to the negative depictions of Islamic world doing by Western media which focused mainly on the issues of terrorism, intolerance, poverty, conflicts, fanaticism, horrible disease, low life qualities among Islamic countries, backwardness and lack of progress. This article explores and describes some statements made by Western media (as well as Western journalists), along with events as the setting of such comments. In order to overcome such situations, media monitoring must be professional and constant. Those who concern with the misleading information toward Islam must provide clear, short, and well-written press releases at regular intervals. Another suggestion is by drawing attention of ethnic youth toward journalism as noble profession and good trade.
Highlights
Most societies in Western World has formulated a premature assumptions toward Islam due to the negative depictions of Islamic world doing by Western media which focused mainly on the issues of terrorism, intolerance, poverty, conflicts, fanaticism, horrible disease, low life qualities among Islamic countries, backwardness and lack of progress
This article explores and describes some statements made by Western media, along with events as the setting of such comments
In order to overcome such situations, media monitoring must be professional and constant. Those who concern with the misleading information toward
Summary
I went to Google Search Machine and entered “Islam in the Western Media”. In less than 0.9 seconds, I got a list of 836,000 articles. Under the headline,” Western media, prejudices and Islam” there are 16,800 articles. In the last many years, MediaWatch, has collected over twenty thousands news paper cuttings and TV news - from the Danish, the European, and the international media
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