I am interesting in the correlation between the barrage of "China is melting" stories recently and the recent article on how a large percentage of news stories

I am interesting in the correlation between the barrage of "China is melting" stories recently and the recent article on how a large percentage of news stories are given to the agencies by corporations/special interest groups (can't find the link). As new agencies tend to parrot each other it probably wouldn't be that expensive to start something like this.