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More ink equals more blood

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What's Black and White and Red All Over? By Richard Morin Thursday, June 15, 2006; Page A02

 

More ink equals more blood, claim two economists who say that newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents leads directly to more attacks.

 

It's a macabre example of win-win in what economists call a "common-interest game," say Bruno S. Frey of the University of Zurich and Dominic Rohner of Cambridge University.

 

"Both the media and terrorists benefit from terrorist incidents," their study contends. Terrorists get free publicity for themselves and their cause. The media, meanwhile, make money "as reports of terror attacks increase newspaper sales and the number of television viewers."

 

The researchers counted direct references to terrorism between 1998 and 2005 in the New York Times and Neue Zuercher Zeitung, a respected Swiss newspaper. They also collected data on terrorist attacks around the world during that period. Using a statistical procedure called the Granger Causality Test, they attempted to determine whether more coverage directly led to more attacks.

 

Too often what take years to learn by the academic community is known straight away by the citizen through intuition and gut instinct. I guess it doesn’t take a lead weight to fall on your head to figure out what’s going on, to paraphrase Aldo Ray, aka, Master Sergeant Muldoon in the John Wayne’s “The Green Berets.” The MSM is causing death and injury to our soldiers, marines, airman, and sailors through their incessant effort to turn America against the President and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

How many more reasons do you need to stop reading, watching, and listening to the MSM?

Brian Duffy

 

 

Update: “Zarqawi's Plans: Use the Media”

 

 I found this at Little Green Footballs:

 

His first recommendation to deal with the increased success of coalition forces: use the media.

 

1. To improve the image of the resistance in society, increase the number of supporters who are refusing occupation and show the clash of interest between society and the occupation and its collaborators. To use the media for spreading an effective and creative image of the resistance.

 

What more will it take for America to wake up?

 

 

 

 

 

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