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This 13 page paper discusses the question of what the relationship may be between terrorists and the media and tries to determine if, by covering terrorist attacks in depth, journalists are subconsciously fulfilling the terrorists' desires for publicity, attention and justification. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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what the terrorists want. The unspoken question here seems to be, does this kind of comprehensive reporting encourage terrorist attacks? Perhaps we might also explore another question, namely, if no
one reported on the attacks, would they stop? This paper discusses these questions and tries to determine if, by covering terrorist attacks in depth, journalists are subconsciously fulfilling the terrorists
desires for publicity, attention and justification. Communications and Terrorism Today Until fairly recently, communications were limited. But with the improvements in telecommunications, particularly satellites, and the advent of the Internet,
the world is suddenly much smaller. Now there are "live broadcasts from anywhere on the globe" giving terrorists "the widest publicity for their spectacular violent acts" (Nacos, 1994, p. 49).
Nacos continues, "[W]hile international terrorists stage their violence primarily if not exclusively for publicity, media coverage is only the means by which these perpetrators try to promote and realize their
various goals" (Nacos, 1994, p. 53). An astute critic would probably want to question Nacoss blithe assumption that terrorists do what they do for publicity; it seems a rather
shallow dismissal of acts that claim countless lives and take a great deal of courage-misguided and twisted as it may be-to carry out. A brief examination of the complex phenomenon
of terrorism might be useful here. The FBI defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the
civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" (Flaherty, 2003, p. 29). Further, we tend to think of terrorists as young Middle Eastern men,
but they are only part of the picture: in the U.K. the IRA is a terrorist group; and in the U.S. the KKK can legitimately be described as such an
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