The Role of American Daily Newspapers in Charting a Territorial Imagination for the Arab/Muslim World
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper probes aspects of the seemingly stereotypical perception in North American media of the Muslim and Arab worlds, their societies and peoples, by focusing on key dimensions of the representation of Arab and Muslim people and their places. To this end, four daily newspapers (The Columbus Dispatch, The Chicago Tribune, The Plain Dealer and The Los Angeles Times) have been surveyed systematically for a specific period of time, post 9/11, 2001 down to the eve of the U.S. war on Iraq in early March 2003. The study shows that the discourse on Muslim/Arab people and their visual representation are implicated in and affected by much wider political discourses and thus saturated with geopolitical import and insinuation. The investigation made focused on use of numerous examples from Iraq during the prolonged build-up to the March 2003 attack. The study offers empirical findings to corroborate the thesis that newspapers enjoy extraordinary freedom to frame and bend and distort the ways in which information is reported, interpreted and ‘packaged.’ Central to my thesis here is the examination of what I have called the “editorial arrangement” engaged in by newspaper editors in reporting on Muslim/Arab-related issues. It was within this type of packaging of ‘visuals’ in concrete particular that Muslim and Arab people and places are misrepresented.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".