Coverage of Koran Case Stirs Questions on Media Role (Published 2010)

News media coverage of plans by Terry Jones to hold a Koran burning grew over the summer.Credit...Steve Johnson/European Pressphoto Agency A renegade pastor and his tiny flock set fire to a Koran on a street corner, and made sure to capture it on film. And they were ignored. That stunt took place in 2008, involving members of the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kan., an almost universally con

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米国のコーラン焼却騒動について。2008年にも同じような事件があったけど、こちらは大した騒ぎにはならなかったらしい。今回はマスメディアが取り上げたのが騒動化した一因ではないか…という分析