Newspapers especially, but sometimes local TV stations too, make political campaign endorsements during election season. Regardless of the topic or where you stand, these are straight up propaganda operations intended to persuade others to adopt the publisher’s agenda.

Today’s OregonLive.com web site, right at the top left of their web page:

It is difficult to see how the media industry can pretend it is not in the propaganda business when they actively engage in indisputable propaganda messaging such as this.