Great question with a great phrase "lower quality propaganda" (can I steal it?). I am well aware that I am manipulated, as is everybody else. By every medium.

Great question with a great phrase "lower quality propaganda" (can I steal it?). I am well aware that I am manipulated, as is everybody else. By every medium. Be it a small blog, be it commercially owned medium, be it state owned medium. And I try to consume a wide range of them to get a better picture. Here is my list of worst to best in "propaganda quality": - US corporate media just insults my intelligence. I consume it but it's unbearable. Its manipulation tactics are so obvious, so inelegant, so clumsy. US empire and its media has done something remarkable in the 26 years since the fall of the Berlin wall: In 1990 USA was a country with a great image, in 2016 USA is arguably the most hated country in the world. - BBC does it MUUUUCH better. You can see that the Brits still know how to be an empire. Smaller, but an empire nonetheless. They have learned their lesson and now they don't let their hubris take over. That's why BBC is much more bearable because they are subtle in the way they manipulate. - Russia Today, state owned (just like the BBC!) does it best! Look at its name: Russia Today. You'd think that you'll learn something about Russia today by consuming it. Well, you kind of do, but they show you only the good stuff. They don't lie (like their US or, subtler, British colleagues). No, they left out news that make them look bad but they (almost) don't lie. And, regarding the world (especially US, UK, Europe, wars NATO as alliance and member states are involved in) they are very close to the core truth. Big plus, they (often) invite people who have opposite opinion. Bottom line, they don't insult my intelligence by manipulating me.