We begin with the assertion that it is a no brainer as to who controls America’s mass media. People in power want to consolidate power through the employment of mass media to create propaganda, subliminal messages, etc… People in power also need trillions of dollars in political campaigns to remain in power.
Let’s take an example. The Chicago Cubs baseball team averages 40,000 fans attending their games at Wrigley Field. Us Chicagoans all know that beer is perhaps the sole reason people go to Cubs games. Baseball games are pretty much a beer party, especially if the stadiums are close to college campuses (in the case of Chicago, it is not many blocks away from Loyola, DePaul, UIC and Northwestern).
Let’s estimate that half of the crowd drink beer, so that’s 20,000 bottles. But they normally drink at least two bottles, so that makes it 40,000 bottles of beer. If each beer costs $5, beer companies makes a staggering $200,000 per game. Multiply that to 160 baseball games per year, they would earn more than $300million of revenue from Cubs fans alone!
This is not to counting the remaining 30 big teams of Major League Baseball. What about the other major sports in America? Basketball, football, hockey, NASCAR, … What about all the other festivals in America? We know from statistics that drunk driving accidents during Christmas and New Year is at least as high as the sum total drunk driving accidents throughout the year. We could thus approximate the amount of alcohol consumption at this time is perhaps 50% of all alcohol consumption throughout the year.
The point being made is that billions and trillions of dollars are made from the alcohol industry. Companies involved in this industry would surely not mind giving billions to politicians to do anything they can to continue and even expand their business.
Given this fact, there is no other religion in the world more ardently prohibits alcohol consumption than Islam. Likewise is the case with gambling, pornography, hedonist entertainment and other vices. So this perhaps provides an economic reason for Islamophobia in America. What this also implies is that portrayal of Islam in the media can never be neutral.