[tambourine-man]

Because the under-resourced, shabby and over-worked media can only possibly cover one scandal at a time (unless it involves some form of sexual solicitation). Asking them to do otherwise would be a terrible strain on their graphics and razzamatazz department.

Also, it's not being covered because people like stories they can understand and can be broke down into easily digestable chunks. Stories that can be outlined by uttering single words in a monotonous manner are good, like: "Flood... people died... that guy's fault...". Asking people to concern themselves with a complex union issue is being optomistic at best... and the networks know that.