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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123269)	7/4/2005 2:14:15 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793739

So? If your point is that media coverage of terrorism has military effects, it is a very dubious point. I doubt that any one can show with any degree of precision that media coverage somehow leads to concrete military effects. Some attenuated and indirect links, maybe, but I think it's too much to say a direct causative link can be shown. Instead, media coverage influences mindsets, but this is a far cry from establishing a cause and effect relationship between media and military effects. Moreover, such coverage does not have a one-way traffic flow because mindsets are affected in more than one way. And this is why I mentioned in a short hand kind of way that we also use the media. I'm trying hard to think of a specific example of media coverage resulting in a concrete military action. Except for perhaps the sinking of the Maine, I can't come up with one. The Nazis, of course, had a tremendous propaganda machine, but it was geared for internal domestic consumption for the most part.