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It doesn't seem all that strange to me.

The NY Times, Washington Post and the BBC do original reporting. CNN and Fox News have no paywall, and they do something which passes for reporting.

Sometimes a regional paper has special coverage of an ongoing story, as the Seattle Times is doing with the Boeing 737 MAX scandal.

For each of those there are 100 blogs that are reloading real news sources over and over again and cut-and-pasting a story where the real reporting is "The New York Times reports..."




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