The shooting rampage that left seven people dead at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., on Sunday has prompted misinformation, sloppy reporting and outright ignorance about the Sikh religion, some media professionals are charging.
On the left-leaning blog Liberal Conspiracy, the British journalist Sunny Hundal posted a derisive recap of what he referred to as “awful” U.S. media coverage of the shootings. Hundal cites, for instance, a Fox News reporter who asked a distraught Sikh if there had been other “anti-Semitic” acts against the Sikh community. Hundal also reposted a tweet that called out a CBS reporter who made this observation: “The Sikh religion is based around truth and nonviolence and the Muslim religion is just a completely different religion.”
Over at Buzzfeed, Andrew Kaczynski posted similar criticisms, taking CNN’s Eric Marrapodi to task for saying that Sikhs are sometimes “unfairly” mistaken for Muslims. “Seems to imply it’s fair to target Muslims,” Kaczynski tweeted.
Then there was Fox 6 News in Milwaukee, which reported that the Sikh religion is based in northern Italy.
On Sunday, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) released a media advisory that offers guidelines for journalists reporting on the tragedy. Doris Truong, the organization’s national president, said the advisory wasn’t a response to specific instances of poor coverage, but rather an effort to share accurate information.
— Christopher Zara, “Wisconsin Temple Shootings Expose Media’s Ignorance Of Sikhism,” ibtimes.com, 8/7/12 (via Hyphen Magazine)
(Source: racialicious, via shepherdsnotsheep)
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