This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.

For the past few weeks, we've been looking at how race, religion, and identity intersect

with the criminal justice system.

Previous episodes have looked at the effectiveness of the broken windows policing strategy, the

effects of implicit bias on shootings of unarmed black men by police officers, and how music,

specifically rap music, shapes the way judges and jurors think about crime.

Today, we shift our attention to terrorism.

In a speech in early February, President Donald Trump talked about the dangers of what he called

radical Islamic terrorism.

Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9-11,

as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino.

He criticized the media for not adequately reporting on the threat.

It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported.

And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it.

Is the president correct?

Is the media failing to report accurately on terrorism?

Is political correctness keeping us from grasping the true danger we face?

Political correctness kills and causes it will cause death.

You can't fight something effectively that you can't talk about.

This week, we step away from the politicians and the pundits to look at the empirical

evidence.

Social science research into how the American media actually cover terrorist attacks.

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