misrepresenting, associating muslims with negative - behaviour? you know, are the headlines orl images incorrect or misleading? so we have a whole array of questions we ask, - and then do the analysis, j have checks and balances and come up with the kind of findings that we have. i and they re not new. i mean, there s lots- of evidence out there that proves that, you know, - muslims and islam are reported negatively. cambridge university has done studies, leicester university. says the mainstream media s l reporting of muslims and islam is contributing to growing hostility and hate crimesl toward muslims. so, you know, the media has a great role to play, - and we find that often it falls
she s nodding, and she said earlier it definitely was. pat on the back. i think the media needs to be in listening mode. and i think the media is in listening mode when it comes to areas like this. there was obviously the controversy earlier this year when the society of editors put out a statement about racism that did not meet the wide approval of the industry. it resulted in the president of the society leaving his position. so i think there is an acceptance that there is an issue and we need to be listening and we need to be engaging. ok, well, ian, thank you very much, and let s turn to the other big media story this week. isobel asher hamilton, senior tech reporter at insider you know, this story, one of silicon valley s most important figures has resigned. just tell us who is jack dorsey for those who don t know. jack dorsey is the founder of twitter. he founded it back in 2006, and he was ceo for two years before he got ousted, which i imagine he didn t enjoy. however, he r
although india is really becoming a way for them as well. and i think that the difficulty is that while both republicans and democrats agree that they like to reign in big tech, they want to do it for them of the different reasons and in completely different ways. well, i think there is a lot more to talk about, but that is it for today. thanks to all my guests. the media show will be back at the same time next week, but for now, thanks for watching. goodbye. hello there. we await the arrival of the second named storm of the season. storm barra will bring the worst of the weather
of criticism for a long time. it hasn t performed very well, unlike facebook or meta - or google and youtube. it has really been an also ran when it comes to advertisingl on social media. and so there s been a lot of activist investors - who wanted to get rid of dorsey. - and dorsey also has a second job. - he s the chief executive - of square, which is a payments processing company, which is worth a lot more money than twitter, and he has a bigger stake in that. than he does - in twitter as well. so i think- it was all lining up. it s been a long time that - shareholders have been wanting to push him out. but it sounds like the new boss is arriving into a very different atmosphere. you know, here in britain, this online harms bill going through, but you know there s other things going on around the world. you know, how much appetite do you think there is now to rein in the tech giants? well, i think there s an enormously growing pressure to reign in the tech companies. i was at a
do is mentor them. they tend to laugh it off and they tend to shrug it off, but you don t really know what they re feeling below the surface. so you ve got to be very careful. yeah, it s very difficult. well, just stay with us because i want to bring in rizwana hamid. she s a director of the centre for media monitoring, and they published a report this week looking at coverage of muslims in the british press. what did you find in your investigations and how did you go about it? i mean, the kind of biggest. findings are that almost 60% of online digital articles - and 47% of television broadcast clips portray muslims in a negative light. i the subject matter that s dealt with mostly in terms of the coverage is - terrorism and extremism. newspapers fare far- worse than broadcasters. local, regional broadcasters fare better than national- channels. those are just some of the findings. - we go about this through a very kind of strict methodology- that was developed with academics or expe