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Tom Cruise gets a top U.S Navy honor for boosting the military with his screen roles (apnews.com)

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[–] vikingr@lemmy.world 59 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hollywood has a long history of being a propaganda arm of the US military, government, and intelligence agencies.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

Ah, yes

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And videogames too... At least that was one of the History Channel documentaries said the other day I was zapping (This reads really old, I swear this wasn't 10 years ago or something).

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah Activison hires people from the CIA. Couple of executives are former CIA execs. Many of the stories in CoD are bending the truth in the US military’s favor.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

ArmA was a military sim for the military before they turned it into a game, and it's still one of the more popular ones.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

America's Army anyone? Seriously seemed like a cool game, never got into it.