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Thursday 02 Apr 2015 - 12:11 Makkah mean time-13-6-1436  American National TV news (Google image) Los Angeles, (IINA) - A new study of media archives has accused American National Television news of over-representing Muslims as extremists and Latinos as criminals, adding to the negative portrayal of the minorities in the US society, OnIslam reported.
“The reality is that the news doesn’t always give us this picture of the way the world should be or is,” University of Illinois professor Travis Dixon, the researcher, was quoted by WUIS on Wednesday.
Using media archives from the University of California at Los Angeles from 2008 to 2012, professor Dixon found that breaking news on cable and national network news often disproportionately broadcast stories that portrayed extremist as Muslim.
In addition, as for immigrants, 97 percent of immigrants in the country illegally accused of crimes were Latino, compared to 60 percent of undocumented immigrants are Latino, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
“What it does from a policy position is that it obscures our ability to devise solutions to problems,” professor Dixon said.
Since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, US Muslims, estimated between 6-8 million, have complained of discrimination and stereotypes because of their Islamic attires or identities.
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