And there are only a handful of corporations that own virtually all media outlets. Something like five or six. So it’s really easy to have them all march in lockstep, using the same phrases and catch words in a “news” report.
They have been “marching in lockstep” for 50 years and more.
All the networks took their stories and ques from AP, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.
50 years ago all three networks all had all the same stories.
When FDR signed the FCC into law in 1932, he immediately appointed a political crony to over see all broadcast media.
He made sure no anti-FDR administration stories were broadcast.
That led to the total domination of the broadcast media by philosophical Progressives of both parties, which, in large part, is how we got to where we are today.
From reason.com:
It did not take long for broadcasters to get the message. NBC, for example, announced that it was limiting broadcasts “contrary to the policies of the United States government.” CBS Vice President Henry A. Bellows said that “no broadcast would be permitted over the Columbia Broadcasting System that in any way was critical of any policy of the Administration.” He elaborated “that the Columbia system was at the disposal of President Roosevelt and his administration and they would permit no broadcast that did not have his approval.” Local station owners and network executives alike took it for granted, as Editor and Publisher observed, that each station had “to dance to Government tunes because it is under Government license.” Some dissident radio commentators, such as Father Charles Coughlin and Boake Carter, gained wide audiences. But radio as a whole was firmly pro-Roosevelt—and both Coughlin and Carter were eventually forced off the air for pushing the envelope too far.
It is a cartel. The LEFT MEDIA CARTEL. They do not get a dime from me.