Al-Qaeda Mastered Media Manipulation in Iraq

examiner.com ^ | May 24, 2007 | Lorie Byrd

[doug from upland]

News of even significant progress in any region of Iraq can be silenced with one strategically placed bomb or beheading. Unfortunately, media manipulation is one aspect of the war the terrorists appear to have mastered.

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The NEW YORK TIMES is one organization that is not manipulated. They go along willingly and with eyes wide open as an enemy of this country.

[Parley Baer]

Right. It does not take anything to manipulate the media in this case seeing as Al-Qaeda is using Al-dimocRAT talking points.

[TShaunK]

she don’t help things
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[weegee]

It took 9 months but the story got out how Hamas won the propaganda war with the aid of Reuters and others news hoaxes in last year’s Israel/Lebanon skirmish.

The Enemedia is treasonous and should NOT be trusted.

It is crazy to see a “journalist” ask the president why he should be trusted in disclosing a 2002 document about OBL’s plot to attack the US with Al Qaida agents.

The media is partisan and works for ratings. Two reasons to distrust anything out of their pie holes.

[Kid Shelleen]

Headlines should read


Drive By Media Embraces Al-Qaeda

[SolidWood]

Exactly. Al-Qaeda hasn’t mastered manipulating the media. The media is willingly siding with Al-Qaeda. Objectively Al-Qaeda is doing a horrible PR job. Beheadings and suicide bombings aren’t inviting much sympathy. What’s emboldening the terroristst is the media’s excuses, spins and sympathetic coverage in favor of the terrorists, coupled with the steady demonization and ridicule of our troops and the Bush Administration.

[Abathar]

Of course they did, it’s kind of easy to do if the media is helping you do it, even begging you to allow them to have it happen.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

This begs the question -

Who is manipulating who?

The media has their own agenda.
Do you think they are helping our enemy with suggestions and requests in order to make Bush look bad?

Al-Qaeda is more than happy to accept our own media’s assistance in their cause.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is a book (now available in paperback ):

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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Hardcover)
by David Horowitz

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And reviews:

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Editorial Reviews

Rich Lowry, Editor National Review

David Horowitz is synonymous with pyrotechnics. A historian and polemicist of the first order, he is paid the ultimate compliment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle

An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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See all Editorial Reviews

Fascinating Analysis of Leftist Goals, August 13, 2006

Reviewer: N. Sincerity - See all my reviews

A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia.

The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us,

Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Huskrrrr]

The “Useful Idiots” don’t have a clue.

[Mo1]

I wouldn’t say they mastered it ... more like the media was happy to help them out

[mewzilla]

From back in 2001...

The Shaw Doctrine

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The media has their own agenda. Do you think they are helping our enemy with suggestions and requests in order to make Bush look bad?

YES!!!

See #10....

[Allegra]

the enemy’s documents reveal that much of their strategy revolves around manipulation of the media. An enemy unable to beat us on the battlefield is employing a strategy of attacks planned specifically for maximum media coverage and effect.

It's not as if it's a difficult task for al Qaeda. The media and the Democrats have been their willing accomplices all along.

[Spok]

The MSM requires little manipulation to demonstrate its anti-American, pro-terrorist bias. What AQ should be concerned about is the Democrats winning the White House; they will have to level an American city to get any front page coverage.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Schroeder concluded that when ISF figures became a good news story of progress, they received less media attention.

The media lose interest in 'fronts' on which we appear to be gaining ground.

This is the embodiment of bias.

[Mo1]

He nailed it in that article

Am I exaggerating? Is that not what neutrality means? I'm sure those defending Shaw's position would argue that he was talking about the need to maintain the appearance of neutrality, not neutrality itself. But Shaw's refusal to be debriefed had nothing to do with appearances. The military was not asking him to report or refrain from reporting any news items to CNN viewers. It was trying to get him to share information that could have affected our national security and American lives.

[lowbridge]

media manipulation is one aspect of the war the terrorists appear to have mastered.

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