How the Insurgent Media Campaign Succeeds in Shaping Global Opinion
Report Details Media Tactics of the Iraqi Groups and Their Supporters
“Living as we do now afloat the incoming and outgoing tides of media, perhaps the aborted London and Glasgow car bombings of a fortnight ago are worth another thought before these attempted mass murders drift away on the sea of bad memories. What about those doctors? The apparent complicity of UK-resident Muslim physicians in the attempted murder of innocent British civilians had many in the West asking why? The short answer is that these trained MDs somehow convinced themselves that these British people didn’t deserve to live—that it would be morally good to kill them. That’s insane. Why would they think that?” asked Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page in a July 12 op-ed.
The logo of the insurgent group “Al-Fatihin Army”, a breakaway faction of the Islamic Army of Iraq.A recent study that investigated both the methods employed and the impact of insurgent Iraqi media attempted to offer a plausible explanation to this complex question, Henninger contended.
“Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War of Images and Ideas,” a June 2007 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty “Special Report” by Daniel Kimmage and Kathleen Ridolfo, found that Sunni insurgents in Iraq and their supporters abroad are actively engaged in a decentralized insurgent propaganda network responsible for, “pursuing a massive and far-reaching media campaign” that “casts light on this crucial yet understudied factor in the battle to shape perceptions in Iraq and the Arab world.” Through the examination of an array of media products, “The report surveys the products, producers, and delivery channels of the Sunni insurgency’s media network; examines their message; and gauges their impact.”
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