This Harvard study finds a direct correlation between critical media coverage of the war in Iraq and actual activity by insurgents there. Despite all of its protestations to the contrary the media by it's coverage has an impact on the war .Quote:
It's NEWS. It's his JOB to put it out there.
http://people.rwj.harvard.edu/~riyengar/insurgency.pdf
According to the study
As an example ; Attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.Quote:
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.
