In Iraq, the administration has empowered a general and officer corps capable of winning the war on the ground. Now it must develop the media corps that can win the war on the airwaves. June 2007 saw a dramatic turnaround in our military fortunes, with the insurgents in headlong retreat in Anbar, Baghdad, and Diayala. But al Qaeda continued to dominate its chosen battlefield: America's living rooms. Full Story »
Posted by Chris J. Breisch
Interesting attempt to quantify the impact of Al Qaeda's media war/terrorism strategy. Do members of the "Atrocity of the Day" media realize that their industry's tendencies are being exploited by the murderous thugs in Al Qaeda? As far as Al Qaeda is concerned, the battle is not for Baquba, it's for real-estate on the front page of the NYT and minutes on the nightly CNN broadcast. As long as the major story in terms of "GRP" coming out of Iraq is terrorist atrocities, the bad guys win--even if the true major stories coming out of Iraq, stories of the actual fighting and diplomacy, tell things differently.
