THE IMAGE OF TERRORISM IN EUROPEAN MEDIA A CASE STUDY OF FOUR TERRORIST ATTACKS
THE IMAGE OF TERRORISM IN EUROPEAN MEDIA A CASE STUDY OF FOUR TERRORIST ATTACKS

Summary/Abstract: Terrorist attacks are currently the greatest threat to global security. All national and international institutions with management, training or military attributions show great importance to this almost uncontrollable phenomenon. All these events were widely presented in the media, and with every terrorist attack the media institutions presented the breaking news and gave up local programs to give details about terrorist conflicts. Often, journalists gave up professional ethics by publishing images with strong emotional impact just to broadly show the danger threatening the whole world. Whether located in France, Belgium, Egypt and Syria, they were all widely broadcasted, greatly influencing the public opinion. The present paper proposes an analysis of the way in which four of the terrorist attacks of the past two years were presented in the European media, namely two in Paris, one in Turkey and one in Brussels. Thus, the emphasis will lay on how the attacks have been covered, the impact on the public, as a a real state of panic was created in many of the cases and how the topics have been approached with regard to the professional ethics. Furthermore, the dimension media offered these events had a boomerang effect - it gave satisfaction to those behind these terrorist attacks, as they have reached their goal, managing to establish global panic.

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