Man Behind the Mosque

1) Assume that the documentary, The Man Behind the Mosque, provided an accurate and research-based perspective on how the “Ground Zero Mosque” became a story. Based on what you saw there, what steps can you remember the cable-news media covering the story taking to investigate who was actually behind the Mosque in terms of mission, goals, and funding?
- people spoke on personal and family needs
-some irrelevant people were asked question when they had nothing to do with it
2) Who brought the story of the “Ground Zero Mosque” to Fox News, the station that broke the story and led coverage of the story?
-Obama
3) It can be argued that much of the cable news coverage of the story was just that – coverage of a “story,” and how people felt about this “story,” rather than actual reporting.  Explain how we can see this at work
- People spoke about their personal opinions
- "reports" are all biased to whether or not they were effected by 9/11
- coverage included only very strong opinions one way or another.  No facts were included, only how people were effected by the situation
- such varied opinions 
4) The journalists of Frontline included coverage of and interviews with the staff of Park 51 (the NYU grad and a couple other part-timers).  Do these individuals appear ever to have been interviewed on cable-news?
- no
5) What sources did Cable news appear to rely on for knowledge and expertise about Islam?  How credible did you find these sources?  Why?
- they relied on the muslim guy (forgot his name) but he is not reliable he is a biased source
6) How relevant is the ownership of a media source for understanding its goals and how its goals may shape bias in its coverage?  
- it is important to know the bias because often times you might get information to sway opinions
7)Who was, at the time of the Ground Zero Mosque story, the second largest shareholder in the News Corp?
- saudi prince
8) If you bring up the topic of the Ground Zero mosque today, many people might say something like, “Oh yeah . . . What ever happened to that?”  Think about it:  Given the level of urgency that was attached to the story, why did cable news just stop covering the story of the Mosque at Ground Zero?
- the progress on debating the situation was not going anywhere 
-eventually agreed to not build there so it wasn't relevant