The emergence of propaganda significantly influenced today’s world and the methods of communication used today. The daily communication between the authorities and the nation, between the person and its public to initiate them, is under influence of propaganda as of a method of persuasion and achievement of goals. This paper analyses the use of propaganda methods in the media in the Republic of Croatia and their method of reporting on the INA and MOL affair. The paper aim is to determine whether propaganda methods were used in media communication regarding this topic and to explore ways in which people are informed about a topic of high public interest. The methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of media publications were used, the value orientation of the analysed articles concerning the affair was explored, which authors wrote about this topic and how and a comment was made on how certain media follow the topic. The research itself covered the period from the fall of the Government of Tihomir Orešković (June 16, 2016) to the new Prime Minister’s Andrej Plenković announcement of the purchase of INA (December 24, 2016). The paper in the introduction gives an overview of the history of propaganda and its elements, theoretically defining spin, who are the people who deal with it and how spin is used. Throughout the paper, various examples show how propaganda was used and how it affected people, and finally an assessment of the future of propaganda is given.