6-16-06 Media-Terrorist Symbiosis

An interesting article about a study on the effect of media coverage of terrorist attacks can be read here...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402025.html

The economists who conducted this study found that "Coverage caused more attacks, and attacks caused more coverage."

So, basically, the findings show that the relationship between terrorists and the mainstream media is a kind of "win-win" situation where both the media and the terrorists benefit. Meanwhile, this presents to me a picture of the symbiotic relationship between terrorists and media being somewhat like a pair of leeches riding on the backs of the U.S. population...