I have seen this time and time again in Afghanistan where a terrorist attack would occur and then the group would attempt to over exaggerate the successfulness of their attack on their social media sites. The more successful or active a group was, the better funded and more well-armed they tended to be. As far as negative media coverage hurting the growth of terrorism, I think that is unlikely. I think that if a media group simply stated that a terrorist attack occurred and nothing more, I would cause more damage to a terrorist group than anything else. The Huffington Post actually believes that it is media’s attempt to identify and publicize attacks that encourage terrorists to continue to act. In the article it suggests that the media encourages groups by publicizing claims of responsibility, thus giving a terrorist group credit for the attack. It suggests that media should never report on who conducted the attack and that the concept of responsibility exists in a different dimension than
I have seen this time and time again in Afghanistan where a terrorist attack would occur and then the group would attempt to over exaggerate the successfulness of their attack on their social media sites. The more successful or active a group was, the better funded and more well-armed they tended to be. As far as negative media coverage hurting the growth of terrorism, I think that is unlikely. I think that if a media group simply stated that a terrorist attack occurred and nothing more, I would cause more damage to a terrorist group than anything else. The Huffington Post actually believes that it is media’s attempt to identify and publicize attacks that encourage terrorists to continue to act. In the article it suggests that the media encourages groups by publicizing claims of responsibility, thus giving a terrorist group credit for the attack. It suggests that media should never report on who conducted the attack and that the concept of responsibility exists in a different dimension than