In America it matters somewhat what channel/media you tune into. With the recent, horrific, event that happened in Orlando, FL, USA, our local media (I assume this was broadcast nationally and internationally also, but I don’t know for sure, because literally Orlando is local to my location) showed local political leaders, police chief, and FBI in a Q&A where also there was a Muslim leader who works with local government for many years now. The Muslim leader had a chance to speak at the mic about the Muslim communities condemnation about what happened and their solidarity with our city against anything like what happened.
If you ask me, the best way for Muslims to be represented well
in the media is to have more and more Muslims represented as average Americans. I say American simply because I live in America. For Muslims to be in our sitcoms, and hour drama shows. Forget the news. The news wants to create controversy. It is good for reporters and journalists and our Facebook friends to talk about being Muslim and represent as average Muslims, but I think the larger audience is the average audience watching every day tv shows. We don’t have enough of that.
Right now in America the republicans are obsessing over Obama not using the term “radical Islam” or “Muslim extremists.” I think, if it was radical Christians or radical Jews, people wouldn’t be so fast to use such terms.