Taxpayer Funded Propaganda (or) the Military-Entertainment Complex‏

Lisbon,
 
It's been going on for decades, the relationship between the
military and Hollywood is nothing new, but it's good to be reminded
now and then just how much of our culture has been hijacked and
manipulated with the intent of framing our conceptions of the world
around us.
 
And they've managed to get you to pay for it too.
 

Washinton Post

25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’made America love war

By David Sirota

 In June, the Army negotiated a first-of-its-kind sponsorship deal with the producers of “X-Men: First Class,” backing it up with ads telling potential recruits that they could live out superhero fantasies on real-life battlefields. Then, in recent days, word leaked that the White House has been working with Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow on an election-year film chronicling the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
read original: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/25-years-later-remembering-how-top-gun-changed-americas-feelings-about-war/2011/08/15/gIQAU6qJgJ_story.html