Media and Terrorism: Friends or Foes?

In a panel for The Media and Terrorism: Friends or Foes, the panellists debated how terrorism should be reported, and whether journalists should feel bound by political or professional imperatives. While some argued that the journalists only obligation was towards the reader, others stressed that it was important to deny the terrorists the oxygen of publicity. One panellist said that democracy dies in bits, meaning that the increasing restrictions imposed on reporting as well as the self-censorship practiced by many journalists had gradually, yet substantially, eroded civil liberties.

IS THE MEDIA OVER EXAGERATING AND OVER EMPHASISES THE ISSUE OF TERRORISM. OR IS IT THE GOVERNMENT ANG POLICE FORCE WHO SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE IN POTENTIALLY SCARING THE PUBLIC AND ENHANCING THIS SENSE OF MORAL PANIC THAT CURRENTLY SURROUNDS THE FEAR OF TERRORISM.