Terrorism benefits terrorists and the media

Terrorism is good for the media and for terrorists. That's the opinion of two economists who have written a paper on newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents, Blood and ink: the common-interest-game between terrorists and the media. Bruno S. Frey of the University of Zurich and Dominic Rohner of Cambridge University contend that terrorists benefit from free publicity while the media make money because "reports of terror attacks increase newspaper sales and the number of television viewers." (Via washingtonpost.com)