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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Koran burning threat ignites debate on media coverage AFP - Saturday, September 11 Send IM Story Print Koran burning threat ignites debate on media coverage Slideshow: Full Photo Coverage: Internet Portals & Search Engines WASHINGTON (AFP) - – An obscure Florida pastor's threat to burn the Koran on September 11 has sparked a soul-searching debate in the media over the amount of coverage being devoted to the deliberately provocative event. Before Pastor Terry Jones suspended his plan to set fire to the Koran, Fox News said it would not cover the stunt, making the Rupert Murdoch-owned television network the first major news outlet to turn its back on the story. And the US news agency the Associated Press, citing a policy of "not to provide coverage of events that are gratuitously manufactured to provoke and offend," said it would not distribute images that show Korans being burned. "This is really about just using some judgment," said Michael Clemente, senior vice president at Fox News. "He's one guy in the middle of the woods with 50 people in his congregation who's decided to try, I gather, to bring some attention to himself by saying he's going to burn a Koran," Clemente told The Baltimore Sun. "Well, you know what, there are many more important things going on in the world than that." US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed hope during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations this week that the news media would ignore Jones's book-burning "as an act of patriotism." Clinton's tongue-in-cheek remarks about media restraint triggered laughter from the crowd but the potential for violence stemming from the actions of a fringe religious group did provoke a bout of self-examination in the media. "What would happen if the media just didn't cover the Koran-burning preacher?" Garrett Graff, editor of The Washingtonian magazine, asked on his Twitter feed. "Not every nut deserves 15 minutes." "The story of this kooky pastor seems to me to be substantially overplayed, with potentially dangerous consequences," The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz said on his blog, "Media Notes." "Why does the world need to follow the antics of one obscure book-burner in Florida?" Kurtz asked. "You can say we're just covering the story, but our combined megaphone has made it into an international story." Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor of journalism at Boston's Northeastern University, noted that the Koran burning coverage coincided with tensions over plans to build an Islamic community center near the site of the September 11 attacks in New York. News organizations that have been "pounding away week after week about the Ground Zero mosque have some complicity" in turning the Koran burning plan into front-page headlines, Kennedy told AFP. "Maybe this minister would have gone ahead and held a Koran-burning anyway," he said. "But I think all of the hateful, not to mention inaccurate, public discussion about the Islamic center near Ground Zero helped to create an atmosphere in which this Koran-burning suddenly seemed, at least to a few people, like a real good idea. "I don't think that the media ought to ignore it," Kennedy added, but the coverage should be "proportionate." Mike Thomas, a columnist for Florida's Orlando Sentinel newspaper, said the media bears responsibility for promoting a "sad-sack preacher, lucky to draw 50 people" to his church into an international figure. "I ask you: If a sad little man burns some Korans in the woods, and the media aren't there to film it, is it news?" he asked. "Of course not." "We could help head off such future nonsense if we folded up the circus tent and left Jones alone with his blowtorch and 30 followers," he said. "Without us, this book burning would be little more than a grainy video on YouTube." Time magazine's television critic James Poniewozik said the Koran burning story however had generated a momentum that meant it can no longer be ignored. "This is, unfortunately, one of those cases in which, by having become news, the story is now making legitimate news," Poniewozik wrote. "World leaders and military leaders have weighed in, there is real international attention to the story and the prospect of real-world, non-virtual protest and unrest if the burning goes on," he said. Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the media attention on Pastor Jones has ended up giving "a lot of weight to an insignificant action." "That's what he he wants. He wants this attention," he said. "I think in a way he succeeded, he succeeded in distracting the media from the main issues. "Maybe this is a teachable moment for all of us," Awad said. 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