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Now It's Militainment Not News
(Xan Brooks, The Guardian, May 22, 2002)
They have seized on Bruckheimer's upcoming television series as proof that he is too deep in the pockets of the defence department: it is a "reality soap" about US soldiers in Afghanistan called Profiles from the Front Line, and has the full co-operation of the military. . . . All of which has provoked alarm within America's news media. Critics regard the programme as part of a government ploy to restrict access for legitimate journalists and turn the reporting of the war on terrorism into a form of "militainment", with Bruckheimer installed as the Pentagon's official house producer. Dan Rather, the CBS news anchorman, has already spoken out against the principle behind the show. "I'm outraged by the Hollywoodisation of the military," he told the Santa Monica Mirror. "The Pentagon would rather make troops available as props in gung-ho videos than explain how the commanders let Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida leaders escape or target the wrong villages."

posted by LoZo 8:55 AM