A newspaper typically gives the most recent updates regarding conditions that has recently occurred (assuming you go to a new one, rather then a archived one).
All the others conduct information regarding specific ideas or topics, and does not give a broad overview of what is going on in the world most of the time.
Metaphor is in the lines - "when all at once I saw a crowd a host of golden daffodils. " here an indirect comparison is made between the daffodils and people it's also a personification
