Same News...Different Site

The overlap in modern news media is so extensive that it is very easy to read the same article six times in six different newspapers or web information venues. The AP or Reuters will sell the same piece to the New York Times, LA Times, the Guardian, Haaretz, and so on. It's gotten to the point where Foxnews and CNN (Right and Left) will publish the same stories on a daily basis...making a joke of a commoner's attempt to glean different views from different venues.

Here is a simple experiment that you can try by Googling an AP story. I just Googled the following:

"Libyan Premier Says He's Ready to Talk." Original AP Article
And here are some other places that it came up:
The Sydney Morning Herald

MSNBC
Forbes
Salon
Newsday

It used to be that the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN would have their own reporters embedded in the same locale filing stories for their employers, but as advertisements have fallen and newspapers are reigning in the costs, major media outlets cannot afford to splurge. The sad part of all this is that the Internet, which ought to make the plethora of the world's voices accessible is simultaneously responsible for narrowing the voices being heard. We hear the same views over and over again, the same political slants...It is hard to believe that this bodes well for the future of the fourth estate.