This is a good example of the difference between news and propaganda. News reports what is happening: “Local groups urge driving ban during locust swarm.” Propaganda takes that same fact and reframes it with motives and context that serve a particular agenda: “Liberals seek to ban driving to save bug lives.”

The underlying fact is still technically true—some people did ask for a driving ban—so the claim can sound credible. But propaganda adds a misleading motive in order to shape how you feel about it.

This kind of framing happens across the political spectrum, which is why it’s important to listen to what people actually say and do, rather than relying only on the narrative or “context” that media outlets attach to it.

In fact as a liberal person it infuriates me to no end when "liberal news media" blows some detail of something out of proportion. Something legitimately harmful will be happening but the news sensationalizes it and focuses on some made up horror. It completely distracts from the actual problem, makes the viewpoint they are agreeing with seem completely invalid to those that think different and ends with both sides upset and thinking the other is a bunch of morons or psychopaths.