{"id":94621,"date":"2024-12-10T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=94621"},"modified":"2024-12-10T10:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:57:04","slug":"gb-news-hates-islam-and-muslims-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/94621\/","title":{"rendered":"GB News hates Islam and Muslims: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan(National Times)- LONDON: A comprehensive two-year analysis reveals\u00a0<em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0accounted for half of the UK news broadcast coverage about Muslims and Islam, much of it with negative portrayals, potentially fuelling community tensions and contributing to civil unrest, researchers warn. New research produced by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CFMM) shows structural and systematic bias in\u00a0<em>GB News\u00a0<\/em>reporting about British Muslims. The study, conducted over two years and on 54 pages, speaks of &#8220;excessive&#8221; focus on Muslims bordering on an &#8220;obsession&#8221; that &#8220;regularly demonises their beliefs&#8221;. Stories about Islam are &#8220;overwhelmingly negative&#8221; and fail to understand the diverse nature of Muslim communities in the UK. The consistently hostile reporting, the CFMM report says, &#8220;risks inciting violence and discrimination against Muslim communities&#8221; and may have contributed to the toxic atmosphere surrounding last summer\u2019s riots. The report concludes that the channel &#8220;rarely features Muslim perspectives&#8221;, often &#8220;fails to challenge Islamophobic remarks\u201d and portrays Muslims as a &#8220;Trojan horse&#8221; seeking to undermine British values. The analysis compares\u00a0<em>GB News\u00a0<\/em>coverage of events concerning Muslims and Islam with the more balanced and far less negative approach of mainstream TV channels like\u00a0<em>BBC News<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sky News<\/em>. It concludes, &#8220;that\u00a0<em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0hates Islam and Muslims&#8221;. The report asks that the regulator, Ofcom, takes a much more robust approach to the broadcasting of biased content that misinforms viewers, divides communities and may encourage violence and disorder. Over a two-year period,\u00a0<em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0mentioned Muslims or Islam more than 17,000 times in its output, accounting for almost 50% of total mentions on UK news channels.\u00a0<em>BBC News<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sky News<\/em>\u00a0accounted for 32% and 21%, respectively. Specific shows that are particularly obsessed include Headliners and Patrick Christys Tonight. Islamophobia has been referenced on\u00a0<em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0on 1,180 occasions accounting for 60% of all mentions when compared with\u00a0<em>BBC News<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sky News<\/em>. Yet, rather than reporting on the very real and everyday cases of anti-Muslim hatred,\u00a0<em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0stories overwhelmingly are geared towards rubbishing the concept of Islamophobia. During the summer riots,\u00a0<em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0accounted for 62% of all clips on UK news channels that associated Muslims with the riots. This was the most of any news channel and three times as many as featured on\u00a0<em>BBC News<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>Sky News<\/em>. <em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0repeatedly framed Muslims as perpetrators rather than victims of violence, downplaying attacks on mosques and Muslim communities, contributing to a biased narrative. Commenting on the report\u2019s findings, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi says: &#8220;The findings from this report about the excessive nature of\u00a0<em>GB News&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0reporting on Muslim communities when compared to mainstream media outlets like Sky and BBC is shocking.&#8221; The consistent stereotyping and stigmatisation of British Muslim communities as the &#8220;enemy&#8221; or the &#8220;problem&#8221; by a platform with millions of viewers is deliberate, dangerous and has real-life consequences. Seeing the impact of far-right radicalisation with the alarming year-on-year rise in anti-Muslim hatred, culminating in this summer\u2019s riots where mosques and Muslim communities were openly targeted, should have been a wake-up call for all. It is imperative that both the regulator and the government take decisive action to ensure broadcasting platforms are not used to fuel hatred and extremism that plays out as violent disorder on the streets of Britain.&#8221; Former ITN Executive and Ofcom Regulator, Stewart Purvis who wrote a commentary in the report states: \u201cThe broadcasting regulator rightly does not attempt to tell news channels which stories to cover. But the Centre for Media Monitoring\u2019s report creates a clear challenge to Ofcom: has its deregulated model for broadcast news created an unintended consequence? Can a broadcaster be allowed to try to build its audience and political influence by a consistently negative portrayal of an ethnic community?&#8221; The Director of the Centre for Media Monitoring, Rizwana Hamid, adds: &#8220;Prior to\u00a0<em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0entering the British media landscape most of our attention was focused on the misrepresentation of Muslims and Islam in print and online publications given that Ofcom\u2019s broadcast regulations were always more robust than the press regulator IPSO. However, the volume of anti-Muslim hate on\u00a0<em>GB News<\/em>\u00a0and Ofcom\u2019s reluctance to regulate its harmful content has meant that politicians and commentators have been give carte blanche to malign Muslims and Islam in a way that no other channel does.&#8221; A robust regulator should demand that the channel performs according to long-established codes for broadcasters and enforce impartiality regulations.&#8221; In response, The Guardian reported, a\u00a0<em>GB News\u00a0<\/em>spokesperson said: &#8220;This inaccurate and defamatory report is nothing more than a cynical, self-serving attempt to silence free speech. It proves exactly why a news organisation like\u00a0<em>GB News\u00a0<\/em>needs to exist and why it is succeeding. We are concerned that at no point did this project of the Muslim Council of Britain contact\u00a0<em>GB News\u00a0<\/em>or its presenters to allow them to respond to these highly defamatory allegations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- LONDON: A comprehensive two-year analysis reveals\u00a0GB News\u00a0accounted for half of the UK news broadcast coverage about Muslims and Islam, much of it with negative portrayals, potentially fuelling community tensions and contributing to civil unrest, researchers warn. 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