Is Rachel Maddow sincere?

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5. All TV talking heads are limited in their "honesty"

If they were being honest they'd have to admit that there is no left/right paradigm, the right is completely insane and only argues "points" for the sake of argument and obstruction. The right doesn't actually have any kind of platform or ideals or beliefs other than cashing in on whomever will pay them. But TV is propaganda as described here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

"Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the desired result in audience attitudes."

"As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare."