Media and Its Effect on Terrorism

The Government uses the media in attempts to limit the harm terrorist inflict on society and in attempts to punish or arrest those responsible for terrorist acts. The Government wants coverage to press forward their agenda and not the terrorists’ agenda. It uses the media to present terrorists as criminals and prevent glamorizing them so as to promote the perspective that blowing up a building, kidnapping a well-known individual, or hijacking an airplane are criminal acts despite the terrorists’ reasons (Raphael, 1).

According to Joseph (1), well-known terrorist groups are adapting strategies and tactically progressing out because of comprehensive, global counterterrorism operations overseas. They are becoming experts at making use of homegrown terrorists, regional operatives, and communication technologies to the fullest, within reach for a long-term terror campaign against the United States. Nowadays, terrorist groups are enlisting, instigating, and guiding international strategies not just through Internet operations but by the use of a well planned, constant blend of propaganda videos as well as call-to-action messages disseminated via social media platforms, for example, Face book, blogs, Twitter and YouTube (Joseph, 2).

The social media framework of the terrorists is aiming at disenfranchised youth with complex, fictional information and forming grassroots terrorists inside the b s of the United States. thus, foreign jihadists are amplifying their chances of attacking the United States using a mix, multimedia community participant tactic intended to persuade citizen extremists to violence, organize ideological movements, create opportunities to enlist within the United States from relating world incidents, and promote domestic terrorists to lay down their own objectives and take direct action in the company of open-ended and open-source jihad at home.

The tactic of getting together like-minded individuals through conversational media to amplify radicalism as well as the combined technical skills of jihadists, in unison with greater dependence upon local criminal activities.