dunbar
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I'd say there's an element of truth in all of that. Less so on the last one. I'm not sure if Comcast is really part of the MIC.
I'd have to look into that but I do know that NBC was owned by General Electric until Comcast bought them out in 2009:
The military industrial media complex is an offshoot of the military–industrial complex. Organizations like Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting have accused the military industrial media complex of using their media resources to promote militarism, which, according to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's hypothesis, benefits the defense resources of the company.
General Electric (which owns, but is in the process of divesting, 49% of NBC) is a subcontractor for the Tomahawk cruise missile and Patriot II missile both of which were used extensively during the Persian Gulf War.[1] General Electric also manufactures components for the B-2 stealth bomber and B-52 bomber and the E-3 AWACS aircraft which were also used extensively during the conflict. During the first Gulf War, General Electric received $2 billion in defense contracts related to weapons which would be used in Gulf War and the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq by Coalition Forces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Industrial_Media_Complex
http://www.accuracy.org/release/nsa...-digital-complex-and-commercialized-internet/NSA Spying Helped by “Military Digital Complex” and Commercialized Internet
“It’s really the worst possible scenario for a free society, when you have an economy dominated by a handful of monopolistic giants working hand in hand with a national security state that’s completely off-limits to public review to monitor the population. It’s not a tenable situation for a free society.” - ROBERT McCHESNEY professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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