In today's "Best of the Web" column, the Wall Street
Journal's James Taranto highlights an interesting new study from Harvard University,
which finds a direct correlation between critical media coverage of
the war in Iraq and actual activity by insurgents there. It is an
interesting indicator of the fact that the media - despite all of
its protestations to the contrary - is not simply a detached
bystander in the war effort.
topics:
Iraq
