Abstract
There is a fundamental difference between reporting violent incidents and screening television interviews with the terrorists themselves. Terrorists use armed propaganda to seize the attention of the public and the ethics of giving them the publicity they seek by reporting such violent incidents were discussed in the previous chapter. At the same time terrorists or their supporters will seek every opportunity to put their case directly on television in interviews, possibly back-to-camera, and this chapter is concerned with the wisdom, ethics and legality of giving them such opportunities.
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Richard Francis, ‘Television Reporting Beyond the Pale’, Listener, 27 March 1980 (hereafter Francis, ‘Beyond the Pale’).
Ibid., pp. 13–14. Francis mentions that in the same period there were the same number (18) of interviews with leaders of the Peace Movement.
Richard Francis, ‘Terrorists on Television’, BBC press release of a speech to the Broadcasting Press on 12 July 1979 (hereafter Francis, ‘Terrorists’).
Ian Trethowan, Director-General of the BBC, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, 14 July 1979.
Ian Trethowan, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, 14 July 1979.
This is a paraphrase of extracts from the Act. For the full wording, and for a review of the effectiveness of the Act and its effect on liberties of the subject, see Lord Shackleton, Review of the Operation of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts 1974 and 1976, Cmnd 7324 (London: HMSO, 1978).
ITV, State of the Nation, 22 July 1979, transcribed in Brian Lapping, The Bounds of Freedom (London: Constable, 1980).
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Clutterbuck, R. (1983). Access to the Media for Terrorists. In: The Media and Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06580-6_11
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