This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Most news is simply one article that is either reproduced with permission by other outlets, or the other outlets comment enough about the original article to make it seem like it is a unique article. Either way, much of their information is simply Twitter quotes, Reddit posts, or "close sources" that don't exist. Effectively making their "journalists" probably less resourceful than you.
TMZ changed everything. You might think it just celebrity gossip but it changed the landscape in terms of reporting and speed vs accuracy. Go look for gossip magazines now. MSM, despite the shiny names that bank on their old prestige, really just devolved into TMZ clones for their respective fields.
The days of some reporter with a camera around their neck, shuffling between burnt out cars in Beruit, dodging gunfire is long dead. Now it's some activist shit who reports on Twitter findings.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Most news is simply one article that is either reproduced with permission by other outlets, or the other outlets comment enough about the original article to make it seem like it is a unique article. Either way, much of their information is simply Twitter quotes, Reddit posts, or "close sources" that don't exist. Effectively making their "journalists" probably less resourceful than you.
TMZ changed everything. You might think it just celebrity gossip but it changed the landscape in terms of reporting and speed vs accuracy. Go look for gossip magazines now. MSM, despite the shiny names that bank on their old prestige, really just devolved into TMZ clones for their respective fields.
The days of some reporter with a camera around their neck, shuffling between burnt out cars in Beruit, dodging gunfire is long dead. Now it's some activist shit who reports on Twitter findings.