Why do people seem to want to want propaganda instead of news?

News is information about events without a particular context, in advance of opinion.
Propaganda is information within an exclusive context, designed to influence opinion.

Whatever their political leanings, it seems that an awful lot of people these days do not want “news”.

They want propaganda.
Their propaganda.
And furthermore, they want to discredit at best, or eliminate at worst, the other side’s propaganda at the same time.

News outlets, be they TV, radio, print, blogs or anything else, are understandably going to respond to this and attempt to capture a niche in the information consumer market. Thus some outlets will produce propaganda for the left, others for the right, others for the so called moderates etc. etc.

It is not really the news outlets fault that they seem to suffer from one bias or another. It is the consumer’s expectations that is the “problem”.

So why do people seem to want propaganda instead of news?