"The "Good" Muslims: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Pakistan"

just publicizing this study - haven't read through it yet, only this one summarizing page, but the summary at least makes some familiar points (you know, the kind where you're like DUH I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT FOR YEARS!!) about u.s. media coverage of islam/the muslim world, in this case specifically pakistan, and even more specifically things like correlating the "freedom" of muslim women with how uncovered they are, conflating all "terrorists" with each other and with militants and extremists and all those dirty violent bearded brown heathen men till they're all the same and political, social, ideological and cultural contexts play no role, etc etc. so this is a study that actually examines the coverage of these issues itself and concludes that it "may still be contributing to public confusion over the need for a global “War on Terror” and the public’s perception of the global terrorist risk." go figure...