"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 40 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality… Nearly all countries overestimate their Muslim population, a ... nd many are extraordinarily wrong [...] Nearly every country thinks their Muslim population will grow much more than is projected [...] Every country thinks people are much less happy than they say they are [...] People are often very wrong on how acceptable their fellow citizens find homosexuality [...] Countries are also often very wrong on how acceptable people find sex before marriage [...] (Slides 2-12) more

"Articles derived from a symposium at Georgetown University, organized around four main themes: popular perception of Islam and the Arabs; Arab stereotyping in television entertaining; practices and constraints in American journalism; and American journalists in the Arab world. In a concluding artic ... le Hudson summarizes the papers, analyzing trends which seem to dominate media treatment of Arabs and cautiously suggesting two modest steps which would lead to improvement." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 200) more