Understanding Terrorism Quiz # 10

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Quiz: Understanding Terrorism Quiz # 10
Subject: Terrorist And The Role Of The Media
Total Questions: 30 MCQs
Time: 30 Minutes

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Understanding Terrorism Quiz # 10
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  • Media Scooping is The obtaining and reporting of exclusive news by a media outlet. An outcome of the race to be the first to report breaking news.

  • Media Spin is The media’s exclusion of subjective and opinionated interpretations when reporting the facts.

  • New Media is The use of existing technologies and alternative broadcasting formats to analyze and disseminate information

  • News Triage The decision-making process within the media that decides what news to report and how to report it.

  • Official Secrets Act is An act in Great Britain that permits the prosecution of individuals for the reporting of information that was deemed to endanger the security of the British government.

  • Phalangist is a Chinese paramilitary movement.

  • Print Media are Media outlets that publish newspapers, magazines, and other products that are intended to be read by customers.

  • Propaganda is The manipulation of information for political advantage. It includes the skillful reporting and spinning of the truth, half-truths, and lies.

  • Publicize Their Cause is The practice by terrorists of disseminating information about their grievances and championed groups. This can be done through symbolic violence and the manipulation of the media.

  • State-regulated media exist in environments in which the state routinely intervenes in the reporting of information by the press.

  • Stochastic terrorism is a tactic that allows sympathizers to justify and encourage violence using all available media platforms.

  • Totalitarian Regimes are Governments that practice no control over public and political institutions.

  • In June 1985, hijackers belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah hijacked a TWA airliner, taking it on a high-profile and media-intensive odyssey around the Mediterranean.

  • 9/11 is A symbolic acronym for the September 9, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.

  • 25:6 is The symbol of the racial supremacist Phineas Priesthood in the United States. It refers to Chapter 25, verse 6 of the Book of Numbers in the Bible.

  • Some Ásatrú believers are racial supremacists.

  • Black Helicopters is Referenced by right-wing conspiracy theorists as evidence of an impending takeover by agents of the New World Order.

  • Black Power is An African American nationalist ideology developed during the 1960s that stressed self-help, political empowerment, cultural chauvinism, and self-defense.

  • Christian Identity is The American adaptation of Anglo-Israelism. A racial supremacist mystical belief that holds that Aryans are the chosen people of God, the United States is the Aryan “Promised Land,” non-Whites are soulless beasts, and Jews are biologically descended from the devil.

  • Christian Right is A mostly Protestant fundamentalist movement in the United States that links strict evangelical Christian values to political agendas.

  • Collateral Damage” is A term used to describe unintended casualties. Usually applied to civilians who have been mistakenly killed.

  • Collective Nonviolence is An activist philosophy of the civil rights movement in the American South that advocated peaceful civil disobedience.

  • Counterculture is A youth-centered movement in the United States and other Western countries during the 1960s and 1970s. It questioned status quo social and political values.

  • According to Creativity, the White race itself should be worshipped.

  • “Days of Rage” refers to Four days of rioting and vandalism committed by the Weathermen in Chicago in October 1969.

  • Direct Action is A philosophy of direct confrontation adopted by the Students for a Democratic Society and other members of the American New Left movement.

  • “Disinformation” are Counterterrorist measures that seek to resolve terrorist crises by disseminating damaging information, thus perhaps causing internal dissension and distrust among the terrorists and their supporters.

  • Eco-Terrorism is Political violence committed by self-styled defenders of the environment. Typical targets include laboratories, housing developments, vehicles, and infrastructure.

  • The Establishment is A designation coined by the New Left in the United States during the 1960s. It referred to mainstream American political and social institutions.

  • Fountain Valley Massacre refers to The execution-style slayings of seven Whites and one African American at the Fountain Valley Golf Club on the island of St. Croix by Virgin Islands nationalists seeking independence from the United States.

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