Media intelligence complex

The Media-intelligence complex is an informal alliance between a nation's intelligence community and the mainstream media which seen together as a vested interest which influences public opinion and policy. A driving factor behind this relationship between the government and corporate media is that both sides benefit. The term is used in reference to the system behind the intelligence community of the United States, where it is most prevalent. It is borrowed from a term in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower warning of the dangers of the military-industrial complex. Unlike the military, their is no tradition of outside civilian control of the Intelligence Community which has exploded in size and influence since Eisenhower's day.