For the same reason news coverage of things that are bad for everyone focus on how it's bad for black people, or how it's bad for women. Because the press seem categorically incapable of covering negative aspects of society without a uniquely-victimized or uniquely-malicious group involved.
The conventional wisdom is that they need an angle to make readers care. My hot take is that they're too fucking thick to even begin making an intelligent analysis of anything but the most black-and-white topics. If something is actually contentious they just report on a handful of fashionable opinions as co-equal, trashtalk the low-status opinions, and don't even bother acknowledging the principals and/or perceived realities that lead people to various opinions.
I agree with you, however I think a significant portion of the blame for this kind of emergent behavior comes from the consumers of said media. They're producing what they know will sell.
The conventional wisdom is that they need an angle to make readers care. My hot take is that they're too fucking thick to even begin making an intelligent analysis of anything but the most black-and-white topics. If something is actually contentious they just report on a handful of fashionable opinions as co-equal, trashtalk the low-status opinions, and don't even bother acknowledging the principals and/or perceived realities that lead people to various opinions.