Canadian media doing what the Taliban wants

Scott Taylor makes a good observation about our media (I just wouldn't say the Taliban have been slow doing it):

LAST TUESDAY, the Taliban made public a videotape of what was reportedly a graduation ceremony for a new class of suicide bombers. The footage showed a couple of dozen masked "graduates" wearing black turbans and waving little white flags.

Addressing the graduating class of ’07 was Mansoor Dadullah, the brother of recently slain Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah. Brandishing a Kalashnikov assault rifle, Principal Mansoor urged the would-be suicide bombers to spread terror outside of Afghanistan and to target western countries, including Canada...

...What made this year’s annual graduation ceremony more newsworthy was that the Taliban seemed to have discovered the magical magnetic power of video to the western media...

It seems that someone in the Taliban organization, perhaps with the assistance of their worldlier al-Qaida allies, has twigged to the importance of television images in spreading fear via the western media. It doesn’t have to be a logical threat; it just has to look menacing, and mentioning countries by name as specific targets guarantees coverage...

Another message conveyed by Principal Mansoor in his graduation address was that some of these "pupils" were in fact foreign students who had come from western countries (like Canada) to take this training in Afghanistan...

...if Canadians were left with the impression that dozens of masked suicide bombers are heading our way in droves, they can be forgiven. That was the Taliban’s intention, and our media obligingly helped them achieve their goal [emphasis added].