Open AccessA Study of Trump’s Narrative about Islam in US Press
Author(s) -
Shafqat Hameed,
Ashraf Iqbal,
Kashaf Abdul Razaq
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
global digital and print media review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2788-4988
pISSN - 2788-4945
DOI - 10.31703/gdpmr.2021(iv-iii).04
Subject(s) - islam , terrorism , newspaper , presidential system , narrative , government (linguistics) , political science , politics , foreign policy , international relations , content analysis , presidential election , media studies , sociology , political economy , law , history , social science , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
The study's goal is to investigate the coverage of Donald Trump's anti-Islam narrative in the United States press. The events of September 11, 2001, in New York City, and in San Bernardino,California, among others, impacted the socio-cultural, socio-economic, socio-political, and foreign policies of many countries throughout the world. The current research is essentially a content analysis of two editorials from two different newspapers in the United States (The NewYork Times and The Washington Post). The editorial contents were divided into four categories: A (US government relations with Muslim countries), B (coverage of Islam/Muslims in the war on terrorism), C(Donald Trump's stance on US-Muslim Countries bilateral relations),and D (US government's stance on US-Muslim Countries bilateral relations). To assess the association between different variables, the Chi-square statistical test was performed. The findings show that following the 2016 presidential elections in the United States, editorial overage of Trump's anti-Islam narrative was less favorable than previously.