What Does "The Media" Cover and Not Cover, and When? More Than You Think.
From time to time, someone makes a post here claiming that "the media" doesn't cover some story or another. Then, if I go to Google News and search for that story, I find coverage all over the place. Apparently, "the media" does cover the story, but the person complaining may not have been watching the media when that coverage aired or was printed. That must be the case, because I can click on links on Google News and see the coverage myself.
It's important to understand that the cable "News" networks offer very little actual coverage of news as it happens. Instead, networks like CNN and MSNBC broadcast analysis and commentary programming almost all of the time. They don't actual report news all that much, but focus on specific issues, mainly political issues, in most of their programming. I will not mention Fox News Network, because it is not a news network at all, but a propaganda outlet for the Right.
If you want straight news on television media, your best bet is to watch the regular news programs on the major broadcast TV networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC. They have national and local news programming on every morning, around the dinner hour, and later in the evening. Even Fox TV News programming generally does straight reporting in its regular news programs. Typically, you'll see coverage of the days events on those broadcast networks, both national, international, and local on your local network affiliate station. Viewership of any of those broadcast networks is far, far higher than viewership of any or all of the cable news outlets.
You can also visit major newspaper outlets, along with the TV networks online, at any time of day. Google News will let you search for stories and events that interest you, as well, letting you pick the outlets you want to view for yourself. Just about anything that happens will have coverage you can access via Google News.
Twitter is not a news media outlet. People tweet things about the news, sometimes linking to a story, but Twitter is hit and miss. Facebook is decidedly not a news outlet. It is a social media venue. What you see there depends on what you've looked at in the past and your typical behavior on that site. If you want news, go to news venues for it, not social media.
Just about every story that someone claims was not covered by "The Media" was actually covered. You might have missed it if you're not always watching that media, but the coverage is there, and you can search for it at any time of day or night. It is almost never true that there was "no media coverage" of any major news story or event. You can always find that coverage, whether you watch news on TV or not. It's there and available for you whenever you feel like looking for it.
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This is a common trope on the rightwing media. It's their go-to support for assertions that the MSM is biased to the left. This one is useful because it is largely subjective. It's much more difficult to demonstrate that a news story contains factual errors. That requires journalistic effort. No, it is much easier to fabricate a low-grade conspiracy theory regarding story suppression.
CNN does squander their time a bit repeating content with low news value. But I believe this is just how it is with the for-profit 24-hour news cycle. It's not a conspiracy. Or...maybe that's just what they want you to think. 
This is also a way for news leftover sources like OANN to pump up that hash they are serving.
