SHOCKING!: MEDIA EMBOLDENS OUR ENEMIES ABROAD?
25 March 2008
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Could it be true? Our enemies keep an eye on our media and act accordingly? Could it be that our enemies the world over salivate over the thoughts of a dhimocrat in the White House? Surely you jest!
UPI Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about the war, or of polling about public opinion on the conflict, are followed by a small but quantifiable increases in the number of attacks on civilians and U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a study by Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university’s Kennedy School of Government.
The increase in attacks is more pronounced in areas of Iraq that have better access to international news media, the authors conclude in a report titled "Is There an ‘Emboldenment’ Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq." More here…
