Sinclair Broadcasting owns a lot of different local stations under different corporate names, like local Fox, CBS, etc titles. They have requirements that their affiliates run certain stories word for word. That is largely responsible for the word-for-word news montages. Never assume that your "local" news is either local or independent.
The GamerGate movement was attacked for various accusations like sexist, misogynist, racist etc because it was exposing collusion between other unrelated "news" sites and networks. I'm assuming most of the attacks were perpetrated due to exposing that sort of bias and collusion like we see here and with various other similar headlines like the dozens of news networks describing Trump's inauguration speech as "Dark" (don't have the compilation image on hand) or a few other similar events in the last year.
Journalism is mostly dead. Look for who they are calling racist, sexist, homophobic Nazis and other bad names and then you can see which news sources are independent and probably good to follow. When you listen to those awful people they talk about, you'll quickly realize that they are being smeared and the reports about them are inaccurate propaganda.
Do all "journalists" just reach into the same jar and pull out the phrases and ideological brain washing stories of the week?