Sensationalist media coverage of acts of terrorism triggers further violence according to recent research into international media coverage.
The findings come from a study of more than 60,000 terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2012 as reported in the New York Times. The research was conducted by Michael Jetter, a professor at the School of Economics and Finance at Universidad EAFIT in Medellín, Colombia, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour in Bonn, Germany.
In the study Jetter notes that over the past 15 years “the world has experienced a terrifying, exponential increase in the number of terrorist Read full story ›
Source: The Drum