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Wording

I changed the way that this article is worded a little bit, mainly because there was some clear bias. Someone wrote that the "big three" and other news organizations like CNN and MSNBC are accused of being biased towards the left by the right, and accused of being biased towards the right by the left, and therefore they negate each other. This is simply untrue, the vast majority of the population would agree these networks are at least in some way, biased towards the left. I left in tact the part about Fox News, because a lot of people believe they provide biased coverage towards the right (even though they have the most number of viewers).

In my personal opinion the article is very poor

As living in USA for past 10 years I notice a lot of american propaganda that is difficult for american born citizens to notice. The whole idea of being the greatest country in the world. Or being the only country with free speech. Or dominating in sports ie. world football playoffs are not really WORLD because its only in USA. Also seems that USA is build on slogans that have no merrit. I do think USA is doing a great job in marketing itself to the world but isn't it just one of the propaganda tools. Unless I am misunderstanding the meaning of Propaganda, I honestly believe that USA image to the world, or at least the image USA wants the world to see is one big propaganda / marketing. Also don't ask me to write a better article, as you can probably notice my english is poor. Snow —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.27.150.54 (talk) 04:44, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

Category cleanup

I removed some entries from Category:United States government propaganda organizations and tagged some for citations needed. Overall there are many organizations there that are not run by USA (but are NGOs), and others which have just been criticized by some as being propagandist, but WP:UNDUE is an issue. More eyes to monitor this would be nice. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:51, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Propaganda in the United States/Archive 1#This Article is a Piece of Wimpy Crap, meaning one does not have to be on the payroll of the US government in order to do "US propaganda". CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, PBS, etc., make propaganda without being financed by the government. Samsung and Apple do very effective propaganda, albeit most often it is not political propaganda. tgeorgescu (talk) 20:30, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

a six-weeks period alone

Which weeks? Xx236 (talk) 10:20, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ?

Does it not belong here?Xx236 (talk) 10:24, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In the International section. int21h (talk · contribs · email) 16:48, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have replaced 'Radio Liberty'. Now references and facts are needed.Xx236 (talk) 06:16, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming the article?

Since US propaganda intended for foreign audience is part of this article, should "in" be replaced with "by" or "of" in its title? CurryCity (talk) 09:20, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It may not be necessary as "in" already encompasses propaganda produced "in" the United States. But I wouldn't have a disagreement with a re-name. JArthur1984 (talk) 16:26, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]