Is media provinding Brand Value to terrorist outfits?

In a more covert & innocuous manner, yes.

There is another angle to it. These terrorists outfits where even highly educated people fall in their trap, well know the importance of communication & media to spread their intentions & theories.

We have seen deliberate spread of videos like of Daniel Pearl & other bombing/suicide attacks/massacre in every possible medium of communication.

With this & videos & audios of their top leaders they are able to develop a cult sort of following world wide & even are communicating with each other using such mediums.

As Makrand has pointed out they even have spokesperson to itemize their misdeeds.

Media might not branding them; but they know all the best available with media from net to certain Arabic & other media channels & publications; & they know well how to exploit such resources in this war of Jihad & otherwise terror.

Sudeep well said...

But whatever Makaran has said; cannot be denied.....now it depend on us how we interpret it..... Ankur raised a current and live issue which is related to social responsiblities of a media..... it is like a ghost  and nortmally give a negative impact on people.... 

I feel some of the news should be censored like China ...  which is not exactly required to publish...

Thanks Nitin for your inputs...I agree with you completely...there should be some censorship on Media as well

I think that the media hype involved with each and every terror incident is unnecessary. I respect the people's right to know. But such knowledge should be disseminated carefully. Majority of the coverage caters now a days to exactly what the terrorist groups want - publicity for their cause. It is, I suppose, possible to bring in rules of reporting that curtails the media from providing this totally uncalled for publicity. I would rather see the media act more responsibly in the degree and type of coverage.

When these organizations make claims of having engineered the terrorist incident to media houses, they should simply forward them to the appropriate authorities and avoid giving them publicity. Playing the ratings game (to be the most watched show, the best coverage etc) is not a very mature or people friendly attitude. It only increases the publicity of these outfits needlessly till these names become household names.

I am not saying that this will some way to eliminate terrorism but it is definitely the right step forward.

I have seen the media always refer names of organizations only when there is something bad about them. I mean in this case, they always mention names of terrorist outfits and the people related to them at the top ( which i dont think the target audience require), it acrually serves positively for these ouganizations as this is one of the main motto for them to get publicity. I have hardly seen meduia mentioning names of the organizations whose people are doing some thing good (unless paid for). They will just say "person "A" working with a top MNC or something like that". Should not media understand their responsibility more and act accordingly? Just a thought...I could be wrong...your points will be very helpful...looking forward to them...