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Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary in the Washington Times, "Multidimensional chess."
March 28, 2008

Author:

Arnaud de Borchgrave

Associated Programs:

Transnational Threats Project

Related Research Focus:

Terrorism & Transnational Threats

Experts :

Arnaud de Borchgrave

Excerpt:

To understand the chasm between mainstream media and the blogosphere, Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" is a helpful guide. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, they are not. But they are frequently fact and factoid (an invented fact taken to be true because of its appearance in print). And many blogs have achieved the status of print since countless millions get their news online. The average age of a newspaper reader is 55. Onliners? Try 30.

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