Most news outlets are just repeaters of news stories generated by very few organizations. The smaller news outlets get a story from the Associated Press or the New York Times and put their own spin on it or cover it from a local angle.
That makes sense from a business standpoint, as most local news outlets don't have the huge budgets required to send reporters all over or have knowledgeable analysts on staff who can put complicated stories in context. But this creates the false impression that we have a ton of new sources out there all in agreement, when we really only have a few primary news sources echoed by all the others.
Most news outlets are just repeaters of news stories generated by very few organizations. The smaller news outlets get a story from the Associated Press or the New York Times and put their own spin on it or cover it from a local angle.
That makes sense from a business standpoint, as most local news outlets don't have the huge budgets required to send reporters all over or have knowledgeable analysts on staff who can put complicated stories in context. But this creates the false impression that we have a ton of new sources out there all in agreement, when we really only have a few primary news sources echoed by all the others.