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International Terrorism and Electronic Media: Operation and Regulation of TV News Channels during Coverage Terrorism


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The concept of globalization or internationalization of certain wars, which were result of terrorist activities worldwide, as well as the high attention of terrorism coverage broadcast worldwide might open up better opportunities to journalists-particularly to those who work in democratic countries like U.S.A and India-to improve their coverage. The context is the key: the context of the operation methodology, follow of guidelines of regulatory bodies, and of the journalistic culture and of the global environment.

It is very important how media presents consequences of terrorist acts, how information is transmitted to public. Television and press have had a significant impact on how public receives terrorist acts and their consequences. As a result, nearly each public survey indicates that responders almost anywhere put fear of terrorist acts on top of their priority list.

In order to reach out on a conclusion on this paper, researcher has gone through number of books related to terrorism and media, has examined significant number of journals which deals with core issue of terrorism and its coverage by media.


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Terrorism, BBC, CNN, CNN-IBN, Coverage, Regulation
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  • This sect is the subject of a classic study; Bernard Lewis, The Assassins: A Radical Sect in 4. Islam (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1967).

  • The relationship between the mass media and coverage of terrorism is analysed in Alex Schmid and Janny de Graaf, Violence as Communication: Insurgent Terrorism and the Western News Media (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage 1982), Richard Clutterbuck, The Media and Political Violence (London: Macmillan 1981) and Abraham Miller (ed.), Terror, the Media and the Law (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Transaction 1982).

  • This is a point made very powerfully in Alex P. Schmid, 'Terrorism and the Media: The Ethics of Publicity', TPV 1/4 (Oct. 1989) pp.539- 65.

  • On the terrorists' use of propaganda war see Maurice Tugwell, 'Politics and Propaganda of the Provisional IRA, in Paul Wilkinson (ed.), British Perspectives on Terrorism (London: George Alien and Unwin 198 1) pp. 13-40, and Maurice Tugwell, 'Revolutionary Propaganda and Possible Counter-Measures', unpublished Ph.D. thesis, King's College, University of London,1978.

  • In this connection the author has observed in a recent article in Martin Warner and Roget Crisp (eds), Terrorism Protest and Power (London: Elgar 1990) p. 52:

  • On terrorists' manufacture of media events see the useful discussion in Schmid and de Grant Violence as Communication (note 5) pp.9-56.

  • See Schmid, 'Terrorism and the Media' (note 12) pp.539-65.

  • Hamid Mowlana, 'The Role of the Media in the US-Iranian Conflict', in Andrew Arno and Wimal Dissanake (eds), The News Mediain National International Conflict (Boulder, CO: Westview 1984).

  • Evidence for this assessment can be found in Tim Gallimore's valuable paper, 'Media Compliance with Voluntary Press Guidelines For Covering Terrorism', presented at the Terrorism and the News Media Research Project conference.

  • Baroness Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, made a powerful point in an interview published in The Times, 30 March 1988: 'The news media should consider whether those who, like terrorists, use freedom to destroy freedom, should have so much publicity for their work.'


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Authors

Ratnesh Dwivedi
Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract


The concept of globalization or internationalization of certain wars, which were result of terrorist activities worldwide, as well as the high attention of terrorism coverage broadcast worldwide might open up better opportunities to journalists-particularly to those who work in democratic countries like U.S.A and India-to improve their coverage. The context is the key: the context of the operation methodology, follow of guidelines of regulatory bodies, and of the journalistic culture and of the global environment.

It is very important how media presents consequences of terrorist acts, how information is transmitted to public. Television and press have had a significant impact on how public receives terrorist acts and their consequences. As a result, nearly each public survey indicates that responders almost anywhere put fear of terrorist acts on top of their priority list.

In order to reach out on a conclusion on this paper, researcher has gone through number of books related to terrorism and media, has examined significant number of journals which deals with core issue of terrorism and its coverage by media.


Keywords


Terrorism, BBC, CNN, CNN-IBN, Coverage, Regulation

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