A big problem seems to also be that mainstream audience can't really tell these scandals apart, they often don't understand the details or just don't have a com

A big problem seems to also be that mainstream audience can't really tell these scandals apart, they often don't understand the details or just don't have a complete picture of any single scandal, so that if another scandal gets reported within a few weeks, they'll think it's still the same issue and only rate this first scandal as somewhat worse, rather than there being a second scandal, making the whole thing roughly twice as bad. And as a result, mainstream media also just doesn't report about it as much. A particularly strong example of this is Meltdown and Spectre. The news around those came on public TV where I live. Now we've discovered more and worse vulnerabilities and even for me as someone who frequently reads tech news, I pretty much had to go out of my way to get information about them.