Abstract: The media both National and International face a myriad challenges as they grapple with the news whose subject matter is terrorism. There is a need for news stories which sell well to the population vis-à-vis the challenge of how much and in what manner should such news be broadcasted to the public. The media in one way or the other have ended up advancing the agenda being pursued by the terrorists knowingly and sometimes unknowingly. The media want profits from the news they report and so sometimes they through caution to the wind and aid the terrorists in their achieving of the agenda of sustained exposure or publicity in the media.