Thus, while Hanna makes some good points about commercial messages and FoxNews (for example) being a type of "propaganda" that shapes/distorts our thinking, the fact that самиздат had practically no analogue in 20th-century Western life (because there was no need for it) should caution us against treating Soviet and Western propaganda as "two sides of the same coin".
What's the connection? самиздат appeared because the government forbade to publish many things and it was partially the result of uneffecient propaganda. But it doesn't mean that FoxNews say something closer to the truth.