There should be a tsunami of real time reporting and there is instead a mere trickle

Just an observation and perhaps it is merely a function of my personal epistemic ecosystem.  It sure seems hard to get reasonably real and current information about the war in Ukraine.

With ubiquitous cellphones and social media I was anticipating a deluge of information and having to deal with the challenge of sorting the wheat from the chaff, the propaganda from the real.  That second challenge remains real.

But I haven't seen the cascade.  You go on twitter and in any 6-12 hour period it is the same half a dozen videos endlessly retweeted.  You go on the New York Times and it is much of a muchness with the information you have already gathered from Twitter.  Blogs and Substacks add a little more information but usually more weighted towards differences of interpretation than extra information.

Same videos, same pictures, same stale updates.  Lots of opinions, variously informed.  But no tidal wave of information.  

Why is there such a dearth?  I suspect at least part of it is that few American mainstream media corporations have offices or even many stringers in Ukraine.  No cameras on the ground as it were.  They are probably drawing from pretty much the same sources as everyone else.  

Possibly there is some sort of Russian, or possibly Ukrainian, internet constriction which is precluding information getting out.  Technically possible.  Russia certainly seems to have been up to some old tricks with regard to hacking and denial of service attacks.  But I don't have the impression that the internet or cell phone access is a particular problem.  Yet.  

So why is there so little information coming out when we have all the elements to make it happen?

A mystery to me.