Just goes to show the playbook doesn't really differ between governments, even Russian government propaganda employs the exact same techniques.
Is there a government that does not use propaganda to forward their own agenda?
No, which is why these "journalists" should know better.
agreed.it is almost to the point that we as citizens might be better served by software that gathers data and outputs it in article form instead of counting on journalism majors with mortgages to assemble and relate the facts.
No, but in societies with more freedom like the US and the UK there generally tends to be more propaganda, because in those societies the government can't use force to coerce the population. They need people to agree with the official line, so they have to use the media to print stories like the Sunday Times'.