Politico-media complex

The term politico-media complex (PMC) refers to a close and symbiotic type of relationship between a nation state's political classes, particularly any ruling class, its media industry, and any interactions with or dependencies upon an analogous interest group, such as the so-called military-industrial complex (MIC).

As a pejorative term, PMC refers to a form of institutionalized collusion primarily between mainstream media (MSM) news distribution organizations and the current government under which they labor. Critics have pointed out such a relationship may have an adverse effect on democracy and be used to distort public opinion.cite news |first=Andrew |last=Rawnsley |authorlink=Andrew Rawnsley |title=Comment: INSIDE POLITICS: A conspiracy that threatens democracy: With politicians and the media feeding each other's cynicism, it's no wonder people say they are bored. But you give up your vote at your peril |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/2001election/story/0,8224,490003,00.html |work=The Observer |publisher=Guardian Newspapers, Limited |page=29 |date=May 13, 2001 |accessdate=2007-07-16 |quote=The politico-media complex has locked itself into a cycle where politicians and journalists feed each other's negativity. ] cite news|first=Simon|last=Jenkins|authorlink=Simon Jenkins|title=Comment & Debate: The weekend's 9/11 horror-fest will do Osama bin Laden's work for him: This repetitious publicity glorifies terrorism as a weapon of war, scaring us far more than the original explosions did|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1867405,00.html|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian Newspapers, Limited|page=36 |date=September 8, 2006|accessdate=2007-07-17 |quote=This response has become 24-hour, seven-day-a-week amplification by the new politico-media complex, especially shrill where the dead are white people.]

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References

ee also

*Prison-industrial complex (PIC)

Further reading

*Chandler, D. "Positioning Of The Subject". Semiotics: The Basics. Routledge, 2007, ISBN 0-415-36375-6. pp. 186-190. (Weblink information found in 'External links.' [WFE] )
*Ibid. "Postructuralist Semiotics". pp. 217-221.
*Herman, E.S., Chomsky, N. "". Vintage, 1994, ISBN 0-375-71449-9.
*Smail, D. "The Language of Anxiety". Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety. Dent, 1984 ISBN 0-094-77440-4. pp.81-98. (WFE)

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/tor8v/ "A Very Special Relationship"]
* [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/martin_kettle/2007/06/blairs_message_for_the_media.html "Blair's message for the media"] , [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/martin_kettle/profile.html Martin Kettle] , Tuesday June 12, 2007. (Journalist Kettle finds outgoing Prime Minister Blair's attack on the 'ferality' of the media 'interesting.')
*David Smail's [http://www.davidsmail.freeuk.com/ website]
* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1700179,00.html "How Murdoch plans to win friends and influence people"] , [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/recruit033.shtml Paul Murphy] , Thursday February 2, 2006. (Journalist Murphy refers to a memorandum: "Project proposals and tools to communicate public affairs messages")
* [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm "Manufacturing Consent"] video documentary
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,2129693,00.html "Revealed: Blair's talks with Murdoch on eve of war"]
* [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/ "Semiotics: The Basics"] web version. For "Positioning of the Subject", select "Modes of Address" and 'Find (on This Page)' [twice]
* [http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/20031209.htm "The Propaganda Model: A Retrospective"] , Edward S. Herman, December 9, 2003
*cite news
author=
title=Trust Me, I'm Gordon - Not Tony
date=2007-06-25
work=BBC News
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6230904.stm
accessdate=2008-08-05, John Ware, Panorama, BBC One at 2030 GMT on Monday 25 June, 2007