Reporters get the story first and their media infrastructure is quick, it’s collaborative, virtual, global, technical, and getting better all the time. Media are part and parcel of its psyop efforts to influence target audiences, and Hamas teaches its public relations people how to make the best impression with Western media representatives. There is a disproportionate number of foreign journalists in Israel, because it’s a great posting. Media may be the backbone of democracy, but not if media are part and parcel of psyop to influence target audiences. That leads to the authors’ plausible answer to the question of why Hamas and its cohorts expend so much effort on psyop.
