[gkoberger]

I always wondered why repackaging content is considered a bad thing. I feel like hundreds of thousands of hours are wasted by local journalists writing about national events, with nothing to add to the conversation.

Yes, Trump is important. But why does every local newspaper write their own article about everything he does? For every news item, there's thousands of articles on Google News, yet only 1-2 are worth reading.

To me, this seems like a huge reason journalism is having trouble. They're spending tons of time and resources just rewriting the same news stories, rather than embracing their strengths (local news; let WaPo/NYT/AP/BBC/etc handle bigger news stories).