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by Retric 1342 days ago
I have seen lots of pro F-35 and defense contractor advertising on busses etc not just trade journals.

I can’t find references to the US advertising campaigns, but here’s some that ran in Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/f-35-ads-on-oc-transpo...

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Sure on the sides of buses in Ottawa during “Ottawa's Cansec, the largest defence trade show in Canada.”

And I’ve seen blogs writing about f35s and I have no doubt defense contractors are tied to that somehow, whether through ads or putting the journalist in a simulator or whatever.

But when CNN puts a pro f35 ex general slash Lockheed board member on air, or the nytimes writes a story suggesting Taiwan needs more advanced jets, the reporter or producer isn’t being pushed to help sell ads. They are making a choice that’s easier and more logical for them professionally given incentive structures that go way beyond ads.

And in sports broadcasts and on all the radio stations (including NPR) and on a ton of tech news blogs and in all the major US newspapers…

You’re not advertising Northrop Grumman or Lockheed or the F35 like the new iPhone, you’re advertising them like coke. If you live in the DC area their ads are everywhere.