It's also worth noting that it's, in this case, grassroots propaganda. I don't doubt some of the newspapers had back-channels to what the War Department wanted reported or withheld, but the distributed nature of the activity and the apparent desire of the activists not to toe a party line, but pursue the truth, is worth observing. People who think of structures of control as centralized often miss how a specific meme (be it pursuing the truth, defending democracy, or claiming the legacy of the Aryan people) can act as an organizing tool for a decentralized network of supporters and control nodes.

In essence, systems like that survive not on the strength of the king but on the willingness of the people to follow him.