getthesenets, yes, you are correct, and, its been going on forever, I believe most of the propaganda started with Lyndon Johnson and the war in Vietnam. walter Cronkite was probably the worst propagandist of any, during the war, for years he was nothing more than a spokesman for the pentagon. only when he went to Vietnam himself did he change his mind about the war.

and the way the mainstream media treated the buildup to the Iraq war was enough to convince many that the news we were getting was exactly what bush and co. wanted, namely propaganda.