> Google News made it quite obvious how redundant a lot of content is. Often articles are just exact copies of Reuters, AP, ... texts. Reuters and AP are newsw

> Google News made it quite obvious how redundant a lot of content is. Often articles are just exact copies of Reuters, AP, ... texts. Reuters and AP are newswire services which is meant to be used by multiple pubs because local pubs don't have reporters all around the world. The local papers' reporters are busy telling you what your local schoolboard is up to and whatnot. But I agree more pubs will likely disappear or be merged into larger media conglomerates, and that leads into issues like Sinclair forcing all their pubs to push certain agendas.