Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170702:21:52:00
There were periods where shark attacks were highly overcovered. studies show people then fear shark attacks more when in fact they were not that common. take a look, for example, this is from the global terror database. when you look at the percent of attack, 12% are muslim perpetrator or foreign-born perpetrator. the overwhelming, 88% are non-muslim or unknown. >> that's right. so that's what the studies show, is that compared to actual crime statistics, actual terrorism rates, the media tends to overrepresent muslims as terrorists. and that's just based on the coverage and the salience of th...
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