Soundwave said:
His point was I think that the worst thing that could happen to a terrorist would be if their attack did not gain any attention/notoriety. It's literally worse than death for them. In a counter intuitive way that would actually probably curtail attacks because if you couldn't gain notoriety/fame/attention, then there's virtually no incentive to want to it. The object of terror is to (well) terrorize people, if the news media does not take the bait and doesn't give these people a platform, such a tactic loses virtually all of its power. That said, practically of course yes, there is no way to keep this stuff secret, but it's an unending cycle now. Someone watching the news is inspired by this and will want to be the next guy on TV. As such you have a cycle where this is in effect normalized. |
Instead of censoring terrorist attack news, intelligence services could fake some details to ridicule terrorists dead in the attack.
