Instructional Objectives for this activity:
Discuss the media's primary goals in terrorist events.
Explain how terrorists use the media as a weapon.
Apply the knowledge you have learned about the primary role of media in correlation to the theorist goal, and how terrorists use the media as a weapon.
In a 200-300 word essay, elaborate on terrorist goals concerning media. Make sure to answer all the following questions in detail and cite your sources.
With regard to terrorist goals concerning the media, explain how terrorists use the following to help their crusade:
Publicity
Favorable understanding of their cause
Legitimacy and identity
Destabilization of the enemy
Media as a weapon.