[Dean's World] Dave Price: Synergy

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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/