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'.
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.