Media corporations in the Middle East are controlled by a few individuals. The controllers of Arab Media are either the ruling elite of rich Gulf countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, or people who have connections with and are biased to this ruling elite (Khiabany, 2016). Thus, it makes a huge sense that media platforms are linked with politics.
One example of the above notion is the Pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper that has been bought by the Saudi Prince Khalid Bin Sultan in which the Lebanese newspaper is directly owned by a Saudi Prince. Therefore, media in the Middle East has obvious connections with a certain group of people and thus is related to politics (Khiabany, 2016).
Militainment, in addition, is a term which introduces the practice of merging certain messages that serve the military demands through entertainment platforms (Andersen & Mirrlees, 2014). For instance, the American movie “Hacksaw Ridge” embraces the notion of being a soldier and influences the audience to join the military by providing such an encouraging image.
References:
Andersen, R., and Mirrlees, T. (2014). Introduction: Media, Technology, and the Culture of Militarism: Watching, Playing and Resisting the War Society. Democratic Communiqué, 26(2): 1-21. Retrieved from: http://journals.fcla.edu/demcom/article/view/83940/80844
Khiabany, G. (2016). The Middle East. In: B. Birkinbine; G. Rodrigi and J. Wasko (eds.) Global Media Giants. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from: http://research.gold.ac.uk/18559/1/The%20Middle%20East.pdf
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