I doubt any serious journalist in the UK is unaware of HMG's previous engagement with propagandising (or, if you're feeling generous, counter-propagandising) it

I doubt any serious journalist in the UK is unaware of HMG's previous engagement with propagandising (or, if you're feeling generous, counter-propagandising) its own electorate. See for example Powerbase's piece on the "Information Research Department" (IRD.) [1] To take a random paragraph: > The IRD was a top-secret, cold war propaganda unit headed by Norman Reddaway, one of Her Majesty's most experienced liars. Reddaway and his colleagues manipulated the "embedded" press and the BBC so expertly that he boasted to Gilchrist in a secret message that the fake story he had promoted - that a communist takeover was imminent in Indonesia - "went all over the world and back again". He described how an experienced Sunday newspaper journalist agreed "to give exactly your angle on events in his article . . . ie, that this was a kid-glove coup without butchery". .. etc., etc. Strangely, though, this historical context is almost never presented in any contemporary reporting on state involvement in propaganda or "strategic communications" as it's now called. Though IRD is a historical enterprise and dealt with printed and broadcast media, its successor organisations have carried the struggle well into the internet era. Perhaps the latest is the "Integrity Initiative", on which there is a very interesting report [2] detailing some of the cross-fertilization between the British State, private sector disinformation "experts", the strategic communications sector and journalists. 1: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Information_Research_Department https://powerbase.info/index.php/Information_Research_Depart... 2: http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note-on-the-integrity-initiative http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note...