None of those other things you listed will make them money. Just like the fact they are failing to report that fully documented immigrants are being picked up by immigration thrown into detention centers and being coerced into signing voluntary deportation papers.

I read a story by a largely liberal news outlet about Democrat Congress people going to review one of these immigration detention centers. They were reviewing it because of the poor conditions but even in that article they mentioned that these were undocumented immigrants that were going to be deported because they lacked proper documentation. I'm sure some are but the fact of the matter is there is a huge number of correctly documented immigrants that have also been swept up thrown into these detention centers and no one is talking about it. It doesn't make for good news, it doesn't make for profitable news.

Consider it this way: lots of developers work on games. They're not getting "caught line, hook, sinker over and over" because there are more important things to be working on, for someone's definition of 'more important'.

There always being 1000 things to be outraged about makes the opposition more scattered. It's harder to form a cohesive response because each individual can only effectively react to a limited number of things at any given time.

This also points to one of the benefits of the right wing's media machine. The right also has many things to be outraged about at any given moment - Trump's movement is largely based on grievances. But the media machine is very effective at focusing the flock's ire in a small number of manageable directions. Those targets can shift day to day, even hour to hour, but the well coordinated machine keeps the flock from fracturing.

Alas, despite the claims of the right, there is no left wing media machine to compete with the right's.