Edited sentence: Journalists often apply the term militant to movements using terrorism as a tactic.Militant, other times, can refer to any individual engaged in warfare, a fight, combat, or generally serving as a soldier.Newspapers, magazines, and other information sources may deem militant a neutral term, whereas terrorist conventionally indicates disapproval of the behavior of the individual or organization so labeled, regardless of the motivations for such behavior.The mass media also has repeatedly called terrorist organizations militant groups or radical militants.The mass media often uses the term "militant" in the context of terrorism.The terms often serve to avoid usage of the term terrorists