And if honest reporting can be considered propaganda, what do we make of stories like CBS's Memogate?
Because the left says so?
I don't even care if its true. If the military commanders in a foreign war zone think it will help the military effort, liberals in America can suck a monkey.
Half of the truth certainly can be. And since nobody prints absolutely all of the truth - no editor even knows all of the truth - all speech and print should be suspected of containing propaganda. Including, sometimes, the dictionary.And certainly including the news reports which, we are solemnly assured by journalists, are "objective." The First Amendment does not say that journalism is objective; it says that it doesn't have to be objective because judging that isn't the government's job. Conversely journalism's judgement of the truthfulness of government officers is not dispositive either. The only way to unseat a president, for example, is impeachment or expiration of his term of office.