From Cronkite to Seacrest: The Changing Face of News

I decided to do something a little different with my post today. After searching the news sites that I usually look at to find stories I realized that there were few stories that were being covered on multiple sites. I really had no way of showing the differing ways news is reported because there wasn't one single story that was being largely covered on any of the same sites! So I've decided to post the top stories that multiple sites had on their home pages. These are the stories that you see when you first activate the site.

• CNN's top story read "Car Czar 'shocked' by Detroit management."
• Fox News' largest story was that the FDA might be misleading consumers with food labels.
• Yahoo! News had the story "Dems go after antitrust exemption for insurers."
• The New York Times' top story was "Food Experts Worry as Population Grows."
• CBS News (Walter Cronkite's old station) reported on multiple stories including "Pay cuts coming for bail ed out executives" and "Exclusive: Mexican Drug Cartels in Atlanta."
• RyanSeacrest.com reported on Rihanna's new album, the New Moon Premier, Lady Gaga's new single, and Timbaland's new song.
• Associated Press's top story was that AP artist had made up the story about Obama poster.

All of these sites reported their news as "breaking news" and yet none of the stories correlated with stories on other sites. How can this be? I personally think that it shows how our world has transformed into a tech-savvy global market when the biggest story is what will "sell" and get the most views. It also shows how news sites cater to their readers and post stories that they feel will attract the most traffic. My how things have changed since the Cronkite Era when the stories were the same across the top 3 broadcast networks. As for the stories of today, I'll let you be the judge of what is news and what is not. Comments welcome!