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Thursday, June 15, 2006

Washington Post: Media And Terrorists are Helping Each Other

Study proves that media creates more terrorism:

The researchers counted direct references to terrorism between 1998 and 2005 in the New York Times and Neue Zuercher Zeitung, a respected Swiss newspaper. They also collected data on terrorist attacks around the world during that period. 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.


As they say in the mafia as they take you for a "ride;" "It's nothing personal, it's only business."

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