People mistake "I'm electing a representative and if they fail to represent my views I will elect someone who can better represent me," for "this person was elected so their views are best and I should also hold those views." The same people see media and think "they are giving this a lot of coverage, it must be important," rather than "the media is entertainment paid to deliver ads, and my consumption of this story increases their desire to circulate it to more people and to write more stories like it." Sadly these people are the vast majority. If you want different media coverage, you really do have to do some hard work reading long, difficult to follow pieces and you usually have to pay for them directly if you ever want to avoid the "mass produced entertainment" factor.