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Negative U.S. Media Linked To Increased Insurgent Attacks (Harvard U: MSM Is Emboldening Insurgents
Washington Times ^ | March 24, 2008 | Shawn Waterman

Posted on 03/24/2008 6:24:16 PM PDT by 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...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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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.
1 posted on 03/24/2008 6:24:18 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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What say you?


2 posted on 03/24/2008 6:25:22 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

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.


3 posted on 03/24/2008 6:25:44 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; abb; SandRat; river rat

This is saddening, but not shocking.


4 posted on 03/24/2008 6:26:23 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Those in the national Republican leadership do the work of three men- Moe, Larry, and Curly.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
This study hits the nail on the head. It is, though, an inherently obvious conclusion.
5 posted on 03/24/2008 6:28:50 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

duh


6 posted on 03/24/2008 6:30:06 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

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.


7 posted on 03/24/2008 6:30:15 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

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


8 posted on 03/24/2008 6:30:34 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: 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.

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

9 posted on 03/24/2008 6:30:40 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Is frickin’ Harvard waking up?


10 posted on 03/24/2008 6:30:40 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

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


11 posted on 03/24/2008 6:30:45 PM PDT by homeguard ((Charlie Don't Surf!))
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To: Drango

Look at post #7. Sums it up.


12 posted on 03/24/2008 6:31:13 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

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


13 posted on 03/24/2008 6:31:23 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: Clintonfatigued

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


14 posted on 03/24/2008 6:31:59 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

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

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


15 posted on 03/24/2008 6:32:01 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
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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?


16 posted on 03/24/2008 6:32:44 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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And people wonder how it was that I invented the term, “ENEMEDIA,” so easily...


17 posted on 03/24/2008 6:33:02 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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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.

18 posted on 03/24/2008 6:33:50 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: markomalley

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


19 posted on 03/24/2008 6:35:48 PM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: RandallFlagg

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


20 posted on 03/24/2008 6:36:10 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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