Negative U.S. Media Linked To Increased Insurgent Attacks (Harvard U: MSM Is Emboldening Insurgents

Washington Times ^ | March 24, 2008 | Shawn Waterman

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a "measureable effect" on insurgents there.

Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about the war, or of polling about public opinions on the conflict, are followed by a small but quantifiable increases in the number of attacks on civilians and U.S. forces in Iraq...

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."

... "We find that in periods immediately after a spike in anti-resolve statements, the level of insurgent attacks increases," says the study...

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

The talk from Democrats about how we are losing the war in Iraq... the war is lost... the MSM's negative drumbeat on the war in Iraq... leftists/Democrats in the US enabling the MSM's negative drumbeat - all of this is helping to kill US military personnel.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

What say you?

[the invisib1e hand]

wow. it took the ivy league to get a headline out of something Tsun Tsu could have told you; indeed, a jr high schooler could have figured out.

[Clintonfatigued]

This is saddening, but not shocking.

[ConservativeMind]

This study hits the nail on the head. It is, though, an inherently obvious conclusion.

[Drango]

duh

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Someone better tell the MSM, the Democrat Party and Dems/left-wingers. They apparently are too stupid to figure it out.

But, actually, I imagine they know they are emboldening insurgents in Iraq.

They (the MSM, Dems, Democrat Party, left-wingers, etc, etc) aren’t pro-US military.

[brytlea]

I say anyone with a brain knew it. I also say the media won’t talk about it.
susie

[steelyourfaith]

Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a "measureable effect" on insurgents there.

It is refreshing on those occasions when common sense emanates from Harvard.

[yldstrk]

Is frickin’ Harvard waking up?

[homeguard]

What would our founding fathers have done with a press like we have today????

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Look at post #7. Sums it up.

[NonValueAdded]

Holy crap! This came out of The Peoples’ Republic of Cambridge, Massachusetts??? I’m looking to the west at sunrise tomorrow morning.

[SandRat]

We at FR already knew that and it took a Harvard Study for them to sorta acknowlede it — sheesh what Moroons!

[markomalley]

Here is the actual study, if anybody chooses to read it:

http://people.rwj.harvard.edu/~riyengar/insurgency.pdf

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

They would most likely be tried for treason for emboldening insurgents in Iraq.

What should happen now that there is evidence to back up that treason may be at work here?

[RandallFlagg]

And people wonder how it was that I invented the term, “ENEMEDIA,” so easily...

[NonValueAdded]

What would our founding fathers have done with a press like we have today????

Are you watching the John Adams series on HBO? The answer should be coming up soon. Listen for the words Alien, Sedition, and acts.

And the press was actually way more rabid back then.

[RedRover]

Thanks for the link. I saved it to read later.

[Drango]

The 4th estate has morphed into a 5th column.