Media is Life Air to Terrorism: A Socio Legal Analysis

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The Media being fourth estate of democracy in our country is playing very important role in upholding the human values, raising social issues by becoming voice of those who are downtrodden and weaker section of the society. But the other aspect of media is also that many times due fierce competition amongst media, they are sensitizing unauthentic and negative aspect of any incident which poses lots of problem. There is need fill the gaps in the laws prevailing in India pertaining to regulation of media and it’s reporting. There is also need to invent mode by which social status of people of terrorism affected area can be improved by positive and responsible reporting. It is high time to explore the effect of media in combating terrorism by changing perception of general mass and people affected by terrorism. It is necessary to find out the modalities for regularising the role of media in combating terrorism and also the modes by which media can play a positive role in the process of combating terrorism. The media instead of becoming oxygen of terrorism , may become tools of suffocation and may play a constructive and effective role in combating terrorism if it is strategically managed and used for counter terrorism.

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