Terrorism and the Media

Imagine we are a resident of Jerusalem in the year 60 AD, and we are taking a walk throughout the marketplace doing our weekly shopping. We see a man pull out a dagger and he yells, "Death to all Romans!" and attacks a Roman guard, killing him in front of hundreds of spectators. The assassin quietly slips into the crowd and is lost in a sea of people never to be found. The word of the attack spreads and soon it is the talk of the town. Many more attacks on Romans are made by the Safari and the Zealots. Sympathizers of the Romans slowly disappear and their voices vanish from Jerusalem.…