I don't mean to jump in here, but that last bit was unnecessary..
Why do you try and hold the moral high-ground over everyone because they don't agree with you?
Personally, I think being professional as a News Reporter is important. You are writing for a community. Limited available resources or not, you have to maintain complete balance when producing an article.
News Reporters are meant to be neutral party's, so why should they be able to say things with subliminal-biasing?
That article was biased. There is no doubt about that. It is fact. Regardless of whether it is true or not that they are "lapdogs", or that their propaganda was "pointless", It is biased..
Not only could you be equal by saying something like "honorary propaganda", but the fact that it wasn't pointless if they did it to recover honor... There's the point.. To recover honor..
On a side-note, however, I'm not taking sides, nor am I trying to flame the News Reporter- or anyone else for that matter. I am merely standing by fact.
Congratulations on the War Win, Simians.