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by AndrewKemendo 1174 days ago
The problem isn't with the individual journalists, it's that the structural incentives of for-profit journalism require that editors, writers et al. bias their thinking to assume that the current structure is valid and generally whomever the highest bidder over the longest term determines what the structure is.

That is to say, every human act is political whether you acknowledge it or not because it either maintains the current system or attempts to change it. So we should question the motives of anyone who is structurally incentivized to give you information that benefits the owners of the periodical.

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Bias sure. But that does not imply propaganda which is a much stronger accusation.

There obviously is propaganda here and there, but not every person having a bias is engaging in propaganda.