A good rule when reporting on violent extremist ideology is to think about how you would cover other strains of it. For example, would you treat radical Islamists with the same objectivity? If not, perhaps politics affects your coverage more than you think
*if you don’t see the correlation between these groups or think radical Islam is more dangerous to America than white supremacism, read this and consider the fact that white supremacist ideology has killed far more Americans in recent years than Islamism. blavity.com/daughter-of-wh…
In other words, if you wouldn’t “endorse either side” in a piece about white supremacism, a politically sensitive topic in America at the moment, but you’re fine with rightly reporting on violent radical Islamism as a dangerous and destructive ideology, you’re not unbiased.
