....that perhaps some of the main-stream media (CNN or NBC, etc.) news desk people got lazy - rather than doing clean, original reporting sourced from their own field people and just picked up on items trending on Facebook or Twitter.
That might explain some of the "clone-like" appearance of many of those headlines by them that you posted in another message.
I've heard that many of the news organizations have had very serious budget problems and have butchered their staffs. What easier way could there be to cut spending and generate cheap coverage than to fire a bunch of your people and just pick leads up from social media? In a competitive market such as this is, it could then become standard industry practice. That possibility is frightening!
Along the same line of thinking, I hope this does not have a negative impact on the quality of our masthead news aggregaters such as AP, UPI and Reuters.
Thanks! 
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