Presented by Anna Ford with Craig Charles
Can television be justly accused of supplying the 'oxygen of publicity' to terrorism? Or is it an easy scapegoat?
Tonight's Network assesses the dilemmas terrorism poses for television, particularly in recent weeks during the controversy over the RUC's request for film of the Milltown and Andersonstown murders and the mass media pursuit of the hijacked
Kuwaiti airliner around the Middle East. Viewers and some of the broadcasters involved in the decisions such events dictate will debate the issues, following a film made by Michael Yardley , a freelance writer and photographer specialising in terrorism and security. 'Terrorism may make dramatic TV, but, apart from providing propaganda for fanatical groups who have abandoned reason along with their doubts, it also turns the bombarded viewer into a psychological casualty.'
Assistant producer
MICHAEL HUTCHINSON
Studio director NIGEL FINNIS
Executive producer JEREMY GIBSON Producer ROBIN GUTCH
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