Seems you're confused about the difference between articles, editorials, and op-eds. Not a big reader are you?
The issue I take, is that there's actually very very little legitimate news being promoted. Blogs and detailed substack's have way WAY more interesting content than the New York Times on most topics.
The problem is group think, their articles / investigations tend to be just an opinion piece masked in "research". That's not to say it's all that way, but it often is.
Collaborations are occurring because they quite literally have to share the story to keep the narrative(s) the same. There's only so many stories there allowed to comment on and only so many views they can get for their content. Collaborations are necessary to ensure revenue sharing.
So you criticize them based on the idea of "legitimate news," but the standard you use for yourself is "interesting content." These are not the same thing and don't even necessarily overlap. There is also interesting illegitimate news and boring legitmate news, but these related forms of content don't exist in your argument because you're comparing the apples of your insides to the oranges of journalism's outsides.
>because they quite literally have to share the story to keep the narrative(s) the same
This isn't very charitable. What do you think is driving them to "keep the narratives the same?" What is the value of it?
I hate to ban an account that has been this active and contributed quite a few good posts as well, but the damage outweighs the benefits when an account is this aggressive.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.