Media's Advertisement Of Terrorism

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Media’s Advertisement of Terrorism
The media’s widespread view on terrorism as increased dramatically in the recent years, though terrorism itself has gotten neither better nor worse. Since terrorist attacks have been more publicized people have fear more in spite of the fact that terrorists have been doing similar attacks for many years. In viewing the propaganda the media has put out on terrorism it is to no surprise people are reacting the way they are.
After the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11 2001 commonly known as 9-11, the media’s coverage of terrorism seemed as if to quadruple, and in that people’s views of minorities, mainly those who look to originate of the Middle East, also quadrupled. People’s assumptions took them for granted saying that, “the attackers of 9-11 were Middle Eastern and therefore all Middle Easterns are terrorists,” which as educated humans know is to be false. There is the correlation that the attackers of 9-11 were Middle Eastern but does not fit the reversal saying that all Middle Easterns are terrorists, and yet people took violence to people whom are Middle Eastern. For example after the attacks on 9-11 there was several reports violence against Arab Americans (1). New York citizens, according to Dr. Dave Yount a Philosopher at Mesa Community College, were acting out of emotion instead of reason, similar to the views of Immanuel Kant on individual relativism(2). And therefore weren’t acting in a rational manor and unjustly took offense to those Arab Americans who were innocent. But as the media has “enlightened” the viewers as to how horrible terrorists are and their origin they try to complete their own puzzle by acting in violence to those who “could be” harmful to American views and ways of life. But why does it take a dramatic hit like 9-11 to get Americans thinking about how bad terrorism is?
Back in 1995 when Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah buildin...