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by JauntyHatAngle 2576 days ago
I would personally disagree with you, Murdoch has pretty clearly defined playbook which includes propaganda to further his own ends/political world view - FOX news is a part of that. He does the same with his papers in Australia in order to get the Liberal party voted in.

I'm going off the definition of propaganda being information of a biased/misleading/untrue nature, spread to further a political agenda/view.

It's intentionally misleading, and incorrect, in order to lead people down a particular political path.

In my view, this is still different to papers that present a cleaner view of the evidence/facts/situation.

Of course you can always omit/include details to present a story in a different light, but the degree of which makes a big difference. In the case of FOX, it is clearly so over the line that it becomes propaganda (in my view).

Can't comment on CNN though, never watched it.