From a letter:

Hi, (name of journalist-friend). Something has started bugging me. You know, of course, how both parties use slanted or even propaganda names for bills up for consideration, like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Then journalists have a choice, I guess: to use the bill # or the slanted name or to apply a neutral description when they write about it.

So for example, this headline: Indiana Senate Passes Religious Freedom Restoration Act (headline from a news website)

That's the slanted name of the bill there. So, what do you think--is that a political party (both sides do it) slipping its slanted or even propaganda language into the mouth of the journalist who calls it by that name on the air or in print? Is this a manipulation, a small victory over the independence of the journalist?

Even though both parties do it, it feels to me like a propaganda victory of a political party over the journalist. But I am curious to know what you think about this sort of thing.

Yours truly, etc.