Harvard: Media Has Effect on Insurgency

That shadowy, vast right-wing conspiracy in the Ivy League has done it again. Economists at Harvard have found a link between negative media coverage of Iraq and an emboldening of insurgents. Hot Air has more:

Caveats aplenty — but to no one’s surprise except possibly the left’s, “U.S. out of Iraq” does indeed create an incentive for jihadis to try to push the U.S. out of Iraq.

Allahpundit wonders if the media will report on "this rather media- unfriendly finding" or if it creates an "incentive for the press to at least include more pro-war voices in its coverage?"

[Brit Hume's Special Report did cover this last night]

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