[Dean's World] Dave Price: Synergy
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Thu Jun 15 16:20:18 EDT 2006
Posted by Dave Price:
Synergy
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1150402811.shtml
[1]Al Qaeda Mission Statement:
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.
[2]Economic study:
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."
...Using a statistical procedure called the Granger Causality Test,
they attempted to determine whether more coverage directly led to
more attacks.
The results, they said, were unequivocal: Coverage caused more
attacks, and attacks caused more coverage -- a mutually beneficial
spiral of death that they say has increased because of a heightened
interest in terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001.
It's like the terrorists' bloody chocolate fell into the media's
greedy peanut butter, and voila! A reprehensible but lucrative new
taste treat was born.
(h/t [3]Charles and [4]Glenn)
References
1. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/15/D8I8LJBG0.html
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402025.html
3. http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/
4. http://www.instapundit.com/
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