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« on: June 15, 2006, 11:06:53 AM »
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Economists Find Press Coverage Of Terrorism Increases Attacks

Richard Morin, in his Washington Post (6/15, A2, 744K) column writes that economists Bruno S. Frey of the University of Zurich and Dominic Rohner of Cambridge University have written a study claiming "that newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents leads directly to more attacks." Frey and Rohner say the results of their study "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." Frey said one solution would be to keep groups from gaining "publicity by not publicly naming the attackers."
 
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Of course, this is completely logical.  The whole point of terrorism is to terrorize, and for that you have to have an audience.  Indeed, there have been other studies of the media effect...some find this same pattern, others not.  I'm betting on a strong effect.
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