One of the big things now a days, when most individual news sources are preaching to a choir who are members of the "team" is, "We've learned from an anonymous source..." and then they throw some meat out there that their viewers want to believe, something that advances their teams narrative. Anybody can say they have a source, but major news platforms are given some credibility and leeway when it comes to having sources in the know.
There was a war roomer who was trying to coin and popularize a term awhile back, I can't remember the blokes handle, that I thought was a great term and I use from time to time, narrative propaganda. Narrative propaganda is different from fake news, it's not necessarily false. It's covering the news in a way that shapes a narrative and picking up stories that fit the narrative while ignoring realities that don't fit the narrative, always spinning the issues to fit the narrative, and wielding that narrative as a political weapon. It is a good way, I think, of describing our current news media. They are narrative propagandists, who generate billions of dollars a year for their narrative propaganda.