>As for the advertisers, I suppose it could lead to problems on the reporting side, but I don't think it encourages 'fake news' ...it holds them more accountable to be accurate.

Still not published, even when accurate. Google the Akre case, where Fox news defended itself by first amendment - their right to lie and quash the truth is now legal, by supreme court decision.

> As for the editorial side - well that is going to be skewed somewhere along the line no matter what, hence "editorials". In the long run a system of multiple news agencies with the freedom to cover whatever stories they want is going to be better for the people than a situation where you have one state-run news agency that's run and censored by the government (much to Trump's disgust I'm sure lol)

So how are they all reporting on the same irrelevant cases? From the list I remember, the cases of Elian Gozalez or Lacy Peterson or Terry Schiavo or that ex-astronaut who drove a whole day to Florida to kill her partner. Every season there's a bunch of such cases which are rather irrelevant but occupy lots of time on all big networks simultaneously. They all spontaneously decide that the same case is more important than changes in important laws which will affect millions? But that's exactly what's happening.