Udo Ulfkotte owned up how he had been receiving payments to place his name under pre-written articles [by a well known brand of alphabet soup]
He wrote a book ''Gekaufte Journalisten'' which is hard to find in English [from memory they stopped the print]
Government's push for propaganda appears to have become a runaway train - Canberra submissively follows Washington's illogical narrative as if their next paycheck depended on doing so [which it does] and lets mention that Obama legalized the use of propaganda via the NDAA.
The Canberra government doesn't even rise to the occasion to counter that propaganda even when it was exposed as such by for example Andrew Wilkie who had his career as a senior analist for ASIO ruined as a direct result for revealing the truth about those non existing WMD's in Iraq.
The response to 9-11 was about a lot of things like for example launching PNAC which required a massive global propaganda campaign.
For example - Cheney's oil maps* were signed by many nations long before the lie based response to 9-11 here's the thing it required a propaganda campaign in order to get public ''approval''.
Cheney's oil maps >>
Cheneys oil maps foreign suitors
The thing is that Russian and Chinese companies signed up with Cheney to profit from the invasion of Iraq.
judicialwatch.org/maps-… - Charts of Iraqi Oil Fields
look at the list of foreign suitors part 1&2.