Oh look NOW the media is asking questions they should have been asking months ago. If you have any kind of subscription to billionaire newspapers now is the time to give this money to local independent journalism.
You are right about people not caring, but he way it was presented mattered too. None of those were "front page above the fold" news, you'd have to dig down into the opinion section to find it.
NYT engaged in some of the most egregious sanewashing of Trump initiatives during his campaign and I will forever remember that.