I wonder how prevalent this sort of thing is?

In this sharemarket roundup, they report:

India's benchmark stock index dropped 4.6 percent in early trading and Hong Kong's market slid 4.7 percent by midday. ... In an anomaly, Australia's main stock index gained 5 percent, or 280.50 points, to close at 5,886.30.

Oh dear. The ASX result was no anomaly at all, it was Friday's result because the exchange was closed today If they're that slack on this, then what of the other news reported by them? On TV I've taken to watching Fox, however, the format of that channel is annoying, constantly cut up by sound bites on nonsense issues. For business I exclusively watch CNBC.