(November 10, 2023 at 4:06 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: So it appears to me that the stipulation that it emanates from a source of power isn't necessarily supported. It may be so, but that is not a firm connotation of the word.
Fair enough. The pejorative aspect of the term implies that there's a battle between agendas contending for control of a narrative, and the content in question deliberately omits relevant information that doesn't support the preferred agenda:
Information, ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument, that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions
