CAPF: Effects of Media Publicity on Terrorism
Effects of Media Publicity on Terrorism
No one can forget the 2007 attacks in Mumbai, whose memories still haunt every now and then. In those terror attacks media played important role both for the people and for the terrorists themselves. In order to increase TRP and provide sensational coverage, media provide important information regarding moves and positions of security personal to terrorist, who were getting live feed from TV reporting. Sensing this, govt. immediately asked news channels to add delay in reporting. This was an event where media indirectly helped terrorist.
On the other hand, terrorist
are able to expand and publicize their group with the help of social media. Since,
social media is free platform and message can be spread in short span of time,
terrorist nowadays are taking route of social media to influence people in
succeeding their goals and spread their message. They look forward for “easy to
influence” people on social platform like whatassp, facebook, twitter, etc. For
finding the correct person, they look for people with anti-nationalist
tendencies and opinions, then they influence them on name of job, money or work
in the name of their own god.
Terrorist have time and again
used free media of democratic countries as a tool to threaten the population.
Although, terrorist have not succeeded in uprooting the govt. but have succeed
in installing feeling of insecurity among the people of country through news of
mass killing, or posting videos of lynching people.
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