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It's possible that there is a temporary embargo on the information until it's confirmed, then every news agency will get all the details forwarded directly from officials at a set time.
Failure to stick to the embargo would mean breaking regulator laws and no established news agency would do that.
I work in the media during the week and do this part time. I know that this is the way giant news stories are broken i.e death of a head of state or any other 'realease of information' story. This would not be the same for a terror attack etc networks would just go with the first available news / pics.
This doesn't seem right though, I would guess CNN etc have checked with the company who broke the news and offered big bucks for the source of the info, and found it not likely.
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