In the Columbia Journalism Review is an essay The bad news quietly buried during the pandemic by Zoë Beery:
With the world’s attention glued to the coronavirus pandemic, news about anything else has been slipping farther and farther down the proverbial front page. But that doesn’t mean nothing’s been going on. Whether by design or coincidence, politicians and others are taking cover under coronavirus news to move forward on their plans—and with so much to say about the pandemic, journalists have been letting slide what might otherwise land above the fold.
It’s a very timely observation. Up until the Christian Cooper incident and the death of George Floyd, I hadn’t seen any significant coverage of news events about topics other than coronavirus in a long time.