{"id":20150,"date":"2026-01-01T09:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20150"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:58:42","slug":"media-in-ny-muslims-are-a-political-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/01\/01\/media-in-ny-muslims-are-a-political-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: &#8220;In NY, Muslims are a political force&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/IMEeo\">Muslims are a political and demographic force in Mamdani\u2019s New York &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For New York State, 3.6% of the population is Muslim, and for NYC, 9%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muslims make up 1-2% of the US population but per AI assisted search, but receive a disproportionate amount of news coverage &#8211; accounting for up to 20% of news coverage mentioning a religion. Similarly, Jews make up 1-2% of the U.S. population but also can represent 20% of news coverage of religion. The Catholic church also receives much coverage, but generally related to the Vatican or the Pope, and in the past, church scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disproportionate news coverage biases the public in to thinking that, for example, there are far more Muslims or Jews in the U.S. than there actually are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For New York State, the share of the population that is Muslim is 3.6%, and 9% for NYC. Not a big political force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,26,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherry-picking","category-facts","category-lies","category-media","category-media-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20168,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150\/revisions\/20168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}