Negative U.S. media linked to increased insurgent attacks

Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable "emboldenment effect" on insurgents there. Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about the war, or of polling about public opinion on the conflict, are followed by a quantifiable increases in the number of attacks on civilians and U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a study...

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