It was a story on the national news on radio the other day. It makes sense that a national government as big as ours that wants to stay in power would have a ministry of propaganda.
Good God, you just reminded me of that silly "Ministry of dirty tricks" from Monte Python (at least I think it was from Monte Python).
We are a world superpower, i.e. empire, that's broke. The only way to stay in power is to use propaganda on the low information voter which is about 98% of the people in this country. This nation has always done well economically as long as it was at war declared or otherwise.