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Do we need to call them a group inciting terror instead? Since people have formed an association that the terrorist's cause must always be entirely wrong?
Is terror defined by the application or by the reaction? They could be called Terrorists, Militants, Freedom Fighters, Patriots, Defenders, Liberators, or a host of other things. I think one of the things that makes a news source reliable is - as written here - a telling of the facts. That lack of passion is a feature rather than a bug. It lets us hear the propagandists - all propagandists - for who they are by the inciteful rhetoric they use. A teller's level of vitriol is generally inversely proportional to how much you can trust their account of what is happening.
There's a difference in strategy though, to make something noteworthy and newsworthy though being shocking rather then tactically significant. Should we not talk about that?
If you need to make something shocking then you're just advertising / pandering to a base. News may or may not be noteworthy/newsworthy; whether it is groundbreaking or simply pedestrian is clear in the reading. And just because something is pedestrian doesn't mean it's not interesting. Needing things to be shocking in news is like asking for every item of food to be intensely sweet, or salty, or sour. It dulls the sense to meaningful news which isn't sensationalist and ultimately makes us less aware and inquisitive.
Terrorist's absolutely use horrific acts to advertise. They can get their name out there and drum up support.
I'm taking about what the news usually is, rather than what it should be. I agree it'd be better your way, but a border skirmish won't get covered nearly as much as a massacre.
What's your argument?
That if terrorists do it, news outlets should too?
Imagine setting and maintaining a high bar rather than lowering it every time you get an excuse to do so.
My argument is that terrorists have a grewsome way of getting publicity. They focus on what will be picked up by the (imperfect and sensational) news outlets and conversations. That is different than normal armies, who would focus on degrading the war fighting potential of the other side though tactical strikes on the units actually fighting.
Wouldn't that just cover both sides of every war?
Ukraine is not committing acts of terror when defending themselves by killing Russian military invaders, so no it does not apply to every war.
Even Russians are trying to cover up their atrocities rather than highlighting them.
By the broadness of the definition presented, I would say that soldiers killing soldiers instills terror in soldiers, so therefore it would still cover them. But to be clear, I disagree with a definition so broad
I would define acts of terror as acts done primarily for their phycological impact on the citizens (of both sides) rather than the tactical impact to the war fighters. But even that is probably to broad.
It's still less broad at least
Groups conducting acts with the purpose of extreme public terror then. Most countries don't intentionally conduct phycological warfare on that scale.