Military–industrial–media complex
The military–industrial–media complex is an offshoot of the
Gulf War
During the Gulf War
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, media coverage specifically avoided mentioning civilian casualties, even when mentioning the bombing of civilian targets such as infrastructure.[1] Media coverage relied extensively on official NATO government and military sources for reporting, and repeatedly talked about current and future weaponry of NATO in favorable and expectant terms.[1] Examples of weaponry include the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit and the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk.[1]
Iraq War
Media-Military coordination was such that media executives met in the Pentagon with military officials to decide what to cover and how.[1] In 2007, a company named Defense Solutions hired former four-star general and NBC analyst Barry McCaffrey to petition David Petraeus to buy 5000 armored vehicles from Defense Solutions.[2] Subsequently, McCaffrey appeared on CNBC and praised Petraeus. The next month he encouraged congress in public testimony to purchase more armored vehicles, and criticized a plan that would see the purchase of vehicles from a competitor of Defense Solutions.[2] Additionally, media sources failed to disclose how war industries sold weapons to Saddam Hussein during the 1980s when they covered the history of Iraq and the war crimes it had committed - often with American weapons.[1]
See also
- List of industrial complexes
- Blue Sky Tribe
- Iron triangle
- Pentagon military analyst program
- Propaganda model
References
- ^ Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- ^ a b c d Barstow, David. "One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex". Retrieved 1 November 2018.
Further reading
- Dadge, David; Danny Schechter (2006). The War in Iraq and why the Media Failed Us. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-98766-3.
- ISBN 0-8133-9794-4.
- Lee, Martin A.; ISBN 0-8184-0521-X.
- ISBN 978-0739136980.