> The Atlantic, NYTs, Washington Post, FT, Economist etc. all regurgitate the same headlines/themes based on what is trendy

what do you expect news outlets to do? make up stories? report on something uninteresting? should they report on something they think will never be "trendy"?

there's an infinite number of stories they COULD report on, so they need a prioritization scheme to choose what. I would expect sizable overlap across the media outlets you list, but much less (though non-zero) with a news outlet like The Hollywood Reporter.

One thing I DO wish for is that they are better at reporting "foreign" news. Now that would be cool.