The problem you have here is that this is a scenario where accurate reporting of this incident is in the interests of the US so why would you ever expect to see

The problem you have here is that this is a scenario where accurate reporting of this incident is in the interests of the US so why would you ever expect to see anything but forthright reporting? The question is what happens when accurate reporting is not in our interests? An extremely recent incident was the aid convoy in Venezuela. In a convoy sent by the US to Venezuela, one of the trucks ended up getting set on fire. All mainstream news sources in the US ran the story that Maduro forces had set the convoy on fire. Yet within a day non-US sources such as RT had published video showing that it was a protester had set the truck on fire. Indeed our media would eventually acknowledge it was all a lie, but only several weeks later. The timeline is: February 23rd - truck set on fire. western media runs nonstop articles blaming Maduro. politicians use it as effort to try to justify war. February 24th - RT publishes refutation clearly showing it was a protester who set the vehicle on fire [1] February 25th - March 9th - US media and politicians continue shoving the Maduro did it fabrication. March 10th - NYTimes acknowledges it was a protester who set the convoy on fire and very briefly runs a story as if its breaking news. [2] Even getting back to the Iraq reporting. Our media did not just passively present what was said. They actively evangelized and argued in favor of the evidence which was always, at best, dubious. Fundamentally I think one of the major differences in our propaganda is that we're simply much better at it. Propaganda should not make most people suspect it's propaganda. Ours doesn't - theirs does. [1] - https://www.rt.com/news/452326-venezuela-us-aid-truck-protesters/ https://www.rt.com/news/452326-venezuela-us-aid-truck-protes... [2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/americas/venezuela-aid-fire-video.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/americas/venezuela-...