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> - no longer showing the faces / names / manifestos of the suicide bombers on media

The UK authorities tried that approach through the 1980s regarding the situation in Northern Ireland; PM Mrs Thatcher's infamous "oxygen of publicity" policy was a response to a general feeling that the media were advertising for the terrorists.

However it was worse than ineffective; no-one receiving their primary news of the situation from TV was likely to volunteer for action, and it became symbolic of the Government's seeming powerlessness, that they had to hide the bad news behind censorship.

Aside: I remember being disappointed when hearing Gerry Adams' actual voice for the first time, having heard him dubbed by an actor throughout my childhood. The actor sounded more authorative!