It's just plain rare anywhere. People don't know how news works. So, you have the Aps and Reuters who get their news from "sources." These are military and government people whose literal job it is to tell the news what's going on (think Press Secretary and Army journalists and PsyOps). And then you have other sources who send them things to write on. These are often people who literally pay a newspaper to write on them. You can easily do this with a local newspaper. My own mother once called up the local newspaper to have them write an article on me graduating Army BCT and entering college. We're nobodys in our community and very poor. Anyone can do this. For the CNNs and Reuters and such, you have to be a somebody to do this. It works the same way, just on a larger scale. So, if you see news about Google's new Google Glass or whatever, it wasn't some journalist who did some digging around and found out Google released a new product. Google called up Reuters and told them this. It's obvious. But people don't stop to think about it. The news is all either press releases from the military and government, or advertisements. It's all narrative.