Given the negative meaning that the word "propaganda" has today, I think we should only apply it to deceits or outright lies. If a government disseminates infor

Given the negative meaning that the word "propaganda" has today, I think we should only apply it to deceits or outright lies. If a government disseminates information that serves it's interests, but this information is also a decently subjective representation of reality, we should use some other word for it. For example, Radio Liberty was used as "propaganda" tool by the US. However, it was also a fairly good source of information — certainly closer to the truth than soviet mass media at the time. Should we really call it propaganda, putting it into the same category as aforementioned soviet media? I don't think so.