According to a survey of 15- to 30-year-old men in the two southern provinces where President Barack Obama sent the bulk of American surge troops, 92% of respondents said they didn't know about "this event which the foreigners call 9/11" after being read a three-paragraph description of the attacks.They must really wonder what the hell we're doing there.
Random blog posts about research in political communication, how people learn or don't learn from the media, why it all matters -- plus other stuff that interests me. It's my blog, after all. I can do what I want.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
What Afghans Don't Know
What is this 9/11 thing of which you speak? That may be the response of most Afghans, according to this Atlantic Wire mention of a Wall Street Journal story.
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