...yet another RAND study: Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths in Wartime
...To date there has been no systematic analysis of media and public reactions to civilian casualty incidents, whether these incidents affect media reporting or public support for military operations, and if so, how. This monograph, part of a larger study of collateral damage undertaken for the United States Air Force, aims to fill this gap. It accomplishes this through an analysis of case studies of incidents of civilian deaths in recent U.S. wars and military operations that describe and explain how the U.S. and foreign media and publics have responded to these incidents:

• the February 1991 bombing of the Al Firdos bunker, which was also being used as a shelter by noncombatants, in the Gulf War

• the April and May 1999 attacks on the Djakovica convoy and Chinese embassy during the war in Kosovo

• the late June 2002 attack involving an Afghan wedding party during operations in Afghanistan

• the late March 2003 incident involving a large explosion in a crowded Baghdad marketplace....