Terrorists ride on the power of the internet and have clearly exploited it to its fullest use. Videos of suicide bombings will be edited and available for download just hours later. Are you amazed by their speed and efficiency?
This documentary is on how terrorists publcise their messages through the jihad TV and how it pervert the minds of young Muslims. Videos of smiling suicide bombers could be more destructive.
Documentary on 'Jihad TV'
When planning September 11th, Al-Qaeda filmed the wills of the hijackers against an easily replaceable background, allowing them to edit in shots of the World Trade Centre in flames later. For them, 9/11 was as much about creating iconic images as killing their enemies. It was the internet that "turned the trickle of propaganda into a torrent".
I really like this quote from this documentary : "The sad fact is that a whole generation of young Muslims is growing up with their view of the world shaped by images of war in the Islamic world. They don’t need to watch jihadi videos to be radicalised. They just have to watch the news. "
This documentary is on how terrorists publcise their messages through the jihad TV and how it pervert the minds of young Muslims. Videos of smiling suicide bombers could be more destructive.
Documentary on 'Jihad TV'
When planning September 11th, Al-Qaeda filmed the wills of the hijackers against an easily replaceable background, allowing them to edit in shots of the World Trade Centre in flames later. For them, 9/11 was as much about creating iconic images as killing their enemies. It was the internet that "turned the trickle of propaganda into a torrent".
I really like this quote from this documentary : "The sad fact is that a whole generation of young Muslims is growing up with their view of the world shaped by images of war in the Islamic world. They don’t need to watch jihadi videos to be radicalised. They just have to watch the news. "
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I found the quote from Walter Lippmann: We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.
What I wanted to say, but Lippmann said much better, PR that terrorists use is the same that any party involved in war use. Depends only on which side you are.
I do not have intention to equalize terrorists with non terrorist but we can both remember what kind of PR British government used to justify engagement for British troops in Iraqi war. So I guess the techniques are the same but motives aren't.
You are quite right in pointing out that.
To add on that, I want to share here also that there is an association called the 'Media Workers against the War' (http://www.mwaw.net/index.php)which seek to counteract any dossier on war generated by the governments.
Nick Davies is offering a perspective in his new book on how flat news is killing journalism and how journalists should not subject to these manipulated messages of the government in face of deadline
http://www.mwaw.net/2007/12/08/davies/
I really like the topic.
Regarding terrorism and propaganda,I do think that this is a prominent trend and will continue to develop in the future thanks to the rapid change of the Internet.
During 19th centuries, American used pamphlets as a mean of propaganda for the civil war. Later on, public relations campaign on television and radio were utilized in Gulf War.
2001 remarked a series of suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the USA. And this time, Internet served as an useful mean of terrorist communication.
I've heard that terrorist organizations also use the web page to employ young people to work for them. Surely this is seen as a way of PR or propaganda for the War in the era of Internet.
Governments and the world press attempt to monitor the terrorist website in oder to fight against the attacks.
However, It seems that terrorist groups take the best advantage of technology while governments still use traditional media such as television and newspaper to call on the war against terrorism.
As typing "Terrorism" on Google, I've found some boring web pages. Do you think the role of PR in the war against terrorism is quite blur?
I would say war against terrorism has posed immense challenges to the Pentagon. Warfare has been increasingly PR-ised. The importance of applying PR tactics in driving media/public support could be viwed as important as guns and weapsons in winning the war. This is especially true in democractic countries.
There are also more problems here, for example, most of the news from Iraq broadcasted on BBC, FOX and CNN immediately remind us of suicide bombings.
What’s wrong with the mainstreams’media?
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