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It's not a conspiracy. These are all local news stations that are picking up the story off the wire. Most of the hard news isn't generated by these people. It's created by bodies like Reuters or the AP, and then re-broadcast by local journalists like these around the English-speaking world.
This was clearly one of the trending headlines of the day.
I agree that it isn't a conspiracy, it's just plain ol' laziness.
Fresh out of college I was a DBA for a local news outlet, and I had to write scripts to connect to the wire to deliver the site the AP content.
It was protocol for the really big stories to be diverted to the editors' emails for rewording/retelling with a local flavor instead of just being spit out onto the site in the AP section.
I'm surprised the on-air programming doesn't do the same. Seems lazy.