Professor Paul Baker of Lancaster University carried out a unique research entitled, ' The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK Press 1998-2009 '. Along with three other academics, Professor Baker embarked on a rigorous study that involved the analysis of more than 200,000 articles, equating to over 147million words of journalism. The use of " corpus linguistic methods " in creating an "acceptable bias" was amongst other objectives of their endeavour. There were some interesting conclusions that were drawn from the research : - For every positive article there were 21 negative articles. - Words such as...
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