Wholesome Rage: Winning Hearts and Minds - The Pentagon in Hollywood

This is definitely one of the best articles I've written so far, or at least one of the coollest.

“The content of film and television is directly, regularly and secretly determined by the US government, led by the CIA and Pentagon.” The Director of the Office of War Information, Elmer Davis, explained in 1942: “The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.”

Comments

[Artist]

Ok, Sounds interesting. Lol

[FanOfMostEverything]

...and Lindsay Moran (Cars 2: The Video Game).

I assume she really is former CIA, but I feel like you slipped that one in just to make sure we were still paying attention.

In any case, thoroughly disquieting stuff. I suspected some of it, but I'd had no idea how pervasive it was.

[MrNumbers]

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but I feel like you slipped that one in just to make sure we were still paying attention

I have no idea what you're talking about

[ponygrad]

Damn, that blog post needs to be a recurring series. There's so much to say about each instance.

[MrNumbers]

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I'm here every week

[Super Trampoline]

Fuck the USA, fuck imperialism, fuck the military, fuck the CIA, etc.

[howard035]

Needs a follow-up about how the Pentagon bankrolls prominent fanfiction writers to support certain fantasy settings that promote a global surveillance statefriendship map and has a benevolent hegemonic power that stop threats with hellfire missilesrainbow lasers.

[iisaw]

Speaking of ridiculously minute control, I have a friend who did FX on the latest Thor movie. He had to change Thor's 3D stand-in model because the "order" came down from on high that the thunder god's long hair made him look like a "fucking peacenik hippie." Now I think I know where that came from.

[MrNumbers]

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Working in the film industry, the best I've ever heard is what the US producers called my Australian mates working on the Pirates of the Caribbean set: "White Mexicans"

[iisaw]

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*sigh*

There are times I think it might be a good thing that we're rapidly headed for a third-world culture, economy, and status... but then I remember how many nukes we have.

[Blue_Paladin42]

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Jesus fucking Christ....

[Kuairu]

I'm now wondering how much control they have not just in Hollywood, but other legitimate foreign film areas. Spanish novelas certainly see a lot of that War on Drugs narrative, yet a closer look at which one tries to make both sides sympathetic versus one over the other, and which one gets more marketing and seems more popular.

The new Sicario movie might be interesting to watch, thinking of how ICE might be involved...