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8. Some of us like variety in our offered propaganda, however

Glib retorts aside, basically every transfer of information is propaganda. There is literally no such thing as an "unbiased source" or is there any such thing as a media without an agenda. Everything from the news you read - DU very much included - to your mother giving you the day's gossip over hte phone, is propaganda. At every stop it's been slanted, tilted to someone's viewpoint and agenda to convey an idea or notion to another person.

Your job as the consumer of information is to first, understand this basic fact - it's all propaganda. next, understand that not all or even most propaganda is false or even negative, simply given an inevitable slant. Third, you identify the slant and the reasons behind it. The motives and the agendas of the purveyors giving you the information, and what might be driving the people who give them the information. To fold my title line in here, multiple sources are thus needed to figure out what's going on, or to at least come as close as possible to knowing what's going on.

Becoming informed is hard work, which is why reality TV get better ratings than the news.