(May 28, 2015 at 7:10 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: We keep hearing about how certain religions are stereotyped/persecuted by the media - in particular the religion of Muhammad (lol the hypocrisy). And it got me thinking. We hear/read negative (truthful) information about all religions yet individual religions like single themselves out and say the media is only negative towards us.
If we take the BBC as an example, they try their utmost to be unbiased yet when religionists lament about negative stereotyping they tarnish all media outlets with the same brush. That's hypocrisy. Not only that, the mainstream media in the West (with some exceptions, obviously, because Rupert Murdoch has no interest in truth) tries its best to report only facts. Clearly this is another example of preachers not being interested in truth because they refuse to acknowledge what their religion drives people to do.
Basically, I don't think the reporting of facts is negatively stereotyping anyone. If religionists didn't want to be negatively stereotyped then they shouldn't go around harming/killing people or denying science in the first place.
There are both negative and positive images of religion in the media; however, I have noticed that some people view any film that contains a religious character doing wrong as proof that there is a bias against their faith. I don't think that is true. Most of the population in the United States is still Christian so it makes sense that some bad characters would be religious just as they are in real life. There are also films where the main character is religious but also good
