Letter to the Guardian: We need an inquiry into anti-Islam press

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/23/inquiry-into-anti-islam-press

Over the past decade, a number of academic studies have indicated a worrying and disproportionate trend towards negative, distorted and even fabricated reports in media coverage of the Muslim community. Recent research at Cambridge University concludes that “a wider set of representations of Islam would signify a welcome change to reporting practices. Muslims deserve a better press than they have been given in the past decade” and according to a recent poll, one in three people in Britain today believe that the media is responsible for “whipping up a climate of fear of Islam in the UK” (ComRes).

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