The reporting becomes a story telling place, not for report. When reading a article or report of anything, you notice that one side of the argument is being talked about a lot and the writer seems to be in favour of that side more than the other. It becomes obvious that that group or particular person is being favorited or disliked. This reporting is called Slanted Reporting.
Out of countless slanted reporting that I have seen about Islam and Muslims in general; growing up my knowledge about Islam has increased and/so when I hear a news reporting that is nothing but bias, I say to myself "What are these people's actual feelings about this particular group of people based on what they report?"
This video is an example of Slanted Reporting
After talking about females being mistreated in the Muslim world, the male news anchor stated to Reza Aslan: "Be honest Reza, for the most part it is not a free and opened society for women in those states." This news anchor seems to be exposing his knowledge based on what he hears and sees in media about Muslim women because there are only certain Islamic states that are strict on women, for example Saudi Arabia and Iran. He did not consider the other 19 Islamic states and 50 Muslim-Majority countries that have free and opened rights for their women. There are Muslim female's who are as or even more successful than female's in America. But that is not the point, these news anchors are painting all Muslims with a single brush by saying "Well in Saudi Arabia women cant drive so therefore that's somehow representative of Islam," Reza said. Its representative of Saudi Arabia, not Islam as a whole.
Bill Maher is a comedian, I understand he is trying to make his audience laugh but as Reza said, when it comes to religion, he is not sophisticated enough about the subject.
Bill Maher is a comedian, I understand he is trying to make his audience laugh but as Reza said, when it comes to religion, he is not sophisticated enough about the subject.
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