Radio Dreyeckland’s Our Voice – GTTO4’s First Media Collaboration Debunks Islamophobic Framing of COVID-19 in German Media
Get the Trolls Out!’s first radio collaboration is with Radio Dreyeckland’s Our Voice, in an episode that tackles German media’s Islamophobic and anti-migrant framing of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In May 2021, Germany’s liberal-conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine – the country’s third most-read daily – published an article claiming that “people with a migrant background are particularly affected by Corona virus”. Moreover, the article went on to imply that migrants’ religious practices are to blame.
Illustrated with a ‘bleak’ black-and-white image of social housing blocks, this article illustrates the broader anti-migrant and Islamophobic bias in German media coverage of the pandemic, which we have highlighted before.
Get the Trolls Out!, its partner in Germany Amadeu Antonio Stiftung and community Radio Dreyeckland joined forces in order to debunk the discriminatory and harmful narratives about migrants and COVID-19 propagated by Frankfurter Allgemeine.
Resisting the top-down approach of most of the German media, a special instalment of Our Voice on Radio Dreyeckland invited people from the affected communities to share their take on media coverage of their communities during COVID-19.
Iman Ouadria, university student and ambassador at the Freiburg Intercultural Weeks 2020, and Mustafa Hussien, refugee rights activist who lives in Berlin, both had their say. In addition, Viktoria Balon, coordinator of the In Other Languages programme at Radio Dreyeckland and Editor-in-Chief of the InZeitung newspaper, offered her professional analysis of the Frankfurter Allgemeinearticle.
About the programme Our Voice
Our Voice was initiated by a group of journalists of different backgrounds from Syria, Turkey, Togo, The Gambia and Cameroon. In their multilingual show, they talk about personal stories and discuss current political issues.
To listen to this broadcast of Our Voice, click here (in German).
