Terrorism depends on media publicity to achieve intimidation and sympathy

Evidence

Terrorists try to exert influence over targeted officials and nations through intimidation of the public and arousal of sympathy for their social and political causes. Without widespread publicity, terrorist acts can achieve neither of these outcomes. The mass media, especially television and the Internet, provide the best access to the international community because of their strong drawing power. Terrorists exploit the Internet as a major vehicle of social and moral justification for their causes and the violent means they employ to further them. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2258

Categorization

• XREF: Points to how propaganda extends the moral-disengagement mechanism to mass audiences, echoing vault themes on how narratives legitimize harmful policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2258