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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (20630)6/22/2006 1:17:18 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
When "feeding the beast" results in other people's deaths

Betsy's Page

James Pinkerton looks at the new research showing how the media and the terrorists need each other to generate bloody headlines.

<<< But what if non-natural disasters were, in fact, made worse by saturation coverage? What about terrorism? Those are the challenging questions asked by two academics, Bruno Frey of the University of Zurich and Dominic Rohner of Cambridge University, who argue that reporters and terrorists are playing a "common-interest game" - that is, a win-win for both. Frey and Rohner studied terrorist activity from 1998 and 2005 and concluded,
    "Both the media and terrorists benefit from terrorist 
    incidents." Terrorists gain publicity for themselves and 
    their cause, while the media make money from greater sales
    and "buzz."
The Washington Post summed up Frey and Rohner's argument:
    "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."
Perhaps the relationship could be stated as an even simpler equation: More media equal more terrorism. >>>

I think it's time for some serious navel-gazing of media honchos to try to figure out what their role should be in covering a story like the war in Iraq where their mere presence changes the story. When the effect of their presence in a story means that more people will be killed, it's time for a new book on the role of the media. I'm not sure what the answer is in a world of a free, international press, but I would be happier if there were some indication that the media, at least the western media, were reassessing whether they should cover terrorist killings in the same way they cover natural disasters.

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