Another classic example of the mutually beneficial relationship between terrorist organizations and the media. ISWAP is adept at exploiting the media for the benefit of their operational efficiency and propaganda schemes.
Terrorists media related goals are the same: attention, recognition, and perhaps even a degree of respectability and legitimacy in their various publics. Media, in return, receives the attention of the public that is vital for its existence and benefits from huge audiences.
Its fair to argue that the mutually beneficial relationship between terrorism and today’s media is a problem. This symbiosis is indeed worth examining in greater detail, as it is as vicious and dangerous as it is largely overlooked.
without the media’s coverage, the impact of insurgent attack is arguably wasted, remaining narrowly confined to the immediate victim of the attack, rather than reaching the wider target audience at whom the terrorists’ violence is actually aimed.
Make no mistake, ISWAP is primarily interested in audience, not the victims. How the civilian populace reacts is as important as the act itself. Our actions/words do carry far reaching consequences. It damples the moral of troops and motivate insurgent to dish out more content
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