The Consensus
How much of the „independent" news consensus is really one source, copied.
23 June 2026
Today's most independently reported sentence
„Keir Starmer had significant role in united kingdom - Ireland reset , Taoiseach says"
— word-for-word across 31 separate news outlets.
First surfaced 14:45 UTC via dailyecho.co.uk; within 1.2h, 30 more ran the identical sentence.
Classified: chain syndication — one publishing group, one push (TLD share 97%).
The „independent" outlets
- andoveradvertiser.co.uk
- borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
- bucksfreepress.co.uk
- chardandilminsternews.co.uk
- clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk
- dailyecho.co.uk
- dumbartonreporter.co.uk
- dunfermlinepress.com
- eveningnews24.co.uk
- gazetteandherald.co.uk
- gazetteherald.co.uk
- greenocktelegraph.co.uk
- halsteadgazette.co.uk
- harrowtimes.co.uk
- kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
- leighjournal.co.uk
- malverngazette.co.uk
- messengernewspapers.co.uk
- newsandstar.co.uk
- northwichguardian.co.uk
- nwemail.co.uk
- penarthtimes.co.uk
- readingchronicle.co.uk
- redditchadvertiser.co.uk
- runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk
- stourbridgenews.co.uk
- stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk
- thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
- thisiswiltshire.co.uk
- times-series.co.uk
- wiltshiretimes.co.uk
21.3%
of today's scanned news stream was echo — copied verbatim by at least three outlets, not original reporting.
Also in chorus today
„People fired over Charlie Kirk posts get big payouts for First Amendment retaliation"
15 outlets, word-for-word