The Man Behind the Mosque Questions

1. Cable news did not really use any steps to investigate who was actually behind the mosque. They found the man who had originally thought of the project, who's name is El Gamal, but this was as far as the investigation went.

2. Pamela Geller brought the story to Fox News. 

3. Throughout the story we saw people being interviewed about how they felt aft the mosque being build. We saw both sides of the story and learned how everyone felt but we didn't really hear the reasoning behind the building and the facts for it being build. This was touched on briefly throughout but it was definitely not the main focus of the story, the main focus was to get the opinions of the people to make it much more interesting. 

4. El Gamal the real estate agent on this project was approached for an interview by Fox News but would not talk and no other Park 51 workers were interviewed for cable news. There was a lady interviewed for Frontline however that did a good job in presenting herself. 

5. Cable news used sources of historians, non- islamic, to rely on for information. This is not a credible source because they are not a primary source when it comes to islamic knowledge and personal truths. 

6. It is extremely relevant for media sources to understand that its goal will create bias towards the thing that they are covering. Media sources know that when they are coving a story they are pitching it to the world and they know what the world wants to hear. Because of this they can screw the story in a way that creates a bias in order to get peoples attention.

7. Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal was the second largest shareholder in News Corps at the time of the Ground Zero Mosque. 

8. People  began to loose interest in the Ground Zero Mosque because it was such a long and controversial topic that was going to continue for a long time. People moved on and so did Fox News.