There have been repeated cases of journalists from different media publications relying on shared email lists and private "Hacker News" style forums as a starti

There have been repeated cases of journalists from different media publications relying on shared email lists and private "Hacker News" style forums as a starting point for coming up with stories and angles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList Of course such practices don't mean there's some kind of organized conspiracy, but it could plausibly explain why the news cycle is flooded with derivative material and many headlines share the same keywords. Here are a variety of outlets using the same unusual adjective "Dark" in non-editorial news headlines covering the same event: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/21/full-text-donald-trumps-prepared-remarks-accepting-the-republican-nomination/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/21/fu... https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trumps-dark-dark-convention-speech https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trumps-da... https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004545647/trumps-speech-casts-us-in-dark-light.html https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004545647/tr... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-rnc-speech.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-... https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/22/a_dark_speech_for_a_dark_time_131288.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/22/a_dark... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/donald-trump-rnc-speech https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/donald-trump-rnc-spe... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/22/donald-trump-paints-dark-vision-of-america-in-authoritarian-conv/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/22/donald-trump-pai... https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-convention-speech-fact-check-20160721-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/melania-trump-brings-light-touch-dark-opening-night-gop-convention-n612131 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/melania-trump... https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trumps-angry-dark-speech-caps-off-a-disaster-rnc/ https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trumps-angry-dark-s... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-gop-convention-speech/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-gop-convention-spe... https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/07/stephen-milller-wrote-donald-trump-s-dark-resentful-speech.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/07/stephen-milller-... https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/21/republican-convention-in-dark-speech-donald-trump-pledges-to-restore-order/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/21/republican-convention...