I looked and couldn’t find a similar topic.
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Longest trial in GA history and Young Thug just plead guilty this week…
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Wow. Thank you for the daily dose of Islamophobia, BBC. /s
A crime can be horrific and disgusting, and can be reported on, without vilifying an entire population. That felt like reading a tabloid.
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Did we read the same article? They don’t vilify the wider population, instead, the article focuses on how the lies were spread about the victim, and how this lie was used to incite the murder via social media.
In an age of stochastic terrorism, it’s vital to point out how this happens, and how violent and hateful rhetoric can translate into murder.
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The article read to me like a funhouse-mirror retelling of an Alabama school shooting, complete with the egging on by the dad and the incel, as you said, being stochastically selected.
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Reporting on stochastic terrorism is very important. But I don’t feel that this article is reporting. It’s a sensationalist narrative. A couple of examples of statements that stand alone as their own paragraphs:
Mr Paty’s murder horrified – and petrified – France.
It was a triple lie.
First the girl’s father – Brahim Chnina - made her repeat the claim on videos, which he posted on Facebook, naming the teacher.
The defendants admit their connection to the case, but they contest the charges of “terrorist association” or “complicity to commit terrorist murder”.
The internet was full of new Islamist threats against France, and in late September a Pakistani man had wounded two people with a machete at Charlie Hebdo’s former offices.
In that climate, publicly denouncing a man for blasphemy was tantamount to designating a terrorist target, prosecutors will argue.
The non-journalistic tone, value judgements, speculation on motives, and the use of “Islamist” to describe those involved all come together in an attempt to escalate emotion around the case. When Muslims are already facing discrimination and violence, escalating emotion and sensationalizing the story will lead to more discrimination and violence.
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Huh? Islamist is a perfectly neutral word to describe an extreme form of political Islam. I didn’t think it was controversial to describe literal terrorists that way.
And the rest of your examples don’t stand out to me as lacking journalistic tone, tbh
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The sample looks like a slice of brain in the thumbnail.
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