Propaganda, manufactured consent, outragebait, and/or {dis,mis,}information depending on the outlet, writer, and story and their particular motivations. What i

Propaganda, manufactured consent, outragebait, and/or {dis,mis,}information depending on the outlet, writer, and story and their particular motivations. What is missing is more publicly-funded news sources with the ethics of Walter Cronkite: to report news as information separate from political, economic, and popularity concerns. Scripps News seems interesting. ProPublica pours a great deal of time and energy into original research uncovering unpleasant and inconvenient facts the public should know.