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Terrorism: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. It is sad to see the violence and threat that our world is facing in present day. It is used for war, political campaigning, to create a diversion, and to simply be heard. Terrorism has become a major problem around the world and many people do not even know about it. The people that I speak of are mainly in impoverish and poor countries spread out across the globe. The citizens that are aware of the harm of terrorism want to help create a solution to the violence.

To stop Terrorism, you have to have knowledge of where terrorism is happening. The only problem with this is that citizens in poor countries/provinces like Punjab, Sindh, and Karachi, (just to name a few), aren't receiving this information because the world does not portray terrorism problems well through any accessible sources. The reason they do not have access to these sources is because in these countries/provinces, they do not have computers or newspapers or really any form of media to be able to receive and be warned about these problems all around the world. A majority of the news comes by print media and rarely by electronic media. This is a major problem because they are ignorant to the fact that there is danger. By being unaware of the danger they may not take measures to defend themselves. For example they would not be on the look out for suspicious activity, or would not be aware that there was a problem until it was to late. What media they have available to them is mainly accessible through paper not through the media on T.V. This creates the major problem which is that the paper can't get around to everyone. For example: A reliable article recently stated, "The print media reported as many as 123 such incidents from Balochistan from January to March this year but on TV, the number of related news items was only 15."
Terrorism is a well known problem in the US, but not around the world. People need to be aware of violence and threat, but if the current media method doesn't change, I fear that will never happen.

CITATION: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-6-129178-Study-shows-terrorism-hit-areas-get-less-coverage-on-media 

 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism

TIME & DATE: 9:55pm on August 30th, 2012