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Terrorism lives and breathes from attention from the media. That is a fact. I've brought this up before a long time ago but I want to see what everyone's views on this approach are. I first picked it up a few years ago in college in a War and Force class, and the idea has stuck with me.

If the worldwide media (obviously excluding Al Jazeera) literally and completely ignored anything that had to do with terrorism, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups would basically cease to exist. Now we'd still be fighting them and killing them like we currently are, but the media wouldn't be airing any of their threat tapes, or giving them an ounce of airtime on television, the radio, or even the internet. Terrorism exists because these crazy fuckers want to get their message out, so if our media ignores them completely they won't know what the fuck to do.

It's an idea. Would it work? Not entirely, because I think terrorists will simply find another means of communication, but I still think it would be effective. What's everyone's take on this?

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