Yes, it was pretty 'sexy' media wise. Built in sequels.
As I said, Algeria is a good example of what happens when that sort of thing goes on all the time. People lose interest, try to ignore it.
If terrorism really becomes an every day occurrence it would stop to be news.
Look at Iraq, when stuff was blowing up all over the place people simply looked at the totals, the 'bodycounts', not the individual events. It became a statistics issue, but no longer a prime time news issue.
