The third context for analysis of the discursive construction of Muslims is addressed in this chapter. The news media have been a key site for the representation of ideas about groups, providing a mass of speculation, commentary and information. This cultural archive provides an immense store of knowledge, values and images that have assisted in the maintenance and reproduction of both racist and anti-racist ideas, which fuse in both historical and contemporary forms of racial ambivalence. Fascination with the allure of race and racism and their contradictions, degradations and pleasures seems to ensure that their representation in the media, and particularly treatment and coverage in news and factual programming, remains a controversial and recurring issue of debate today. This chapter will present new evidence on selected news stories in the UK and Europe, particularly those associated with Muslims and the counter-terrorism agenda, as well as retain a focus on the ‘big picture’ of dominant news messages and ways of framing contemporary issues in this fi eld. It will also address the misplaced over-emphasis on the role of the media in depoliticised, liberal anti-racist strategies. Trans-nationally, global news communications are a rapidly changing environment where representations of race are subject to dynamic movement, with old images and messages continually rehearsed and re-shaped in conjunction with the production of new images and messages of both inclusion and exclusion. This chapter will identify and interrogate these contemporary patterns.