Here at HN? Who knows. It depends how aggressively things get flagged. There isn't some approved list of topics. For the media, it seems they will generally no

Here at HN? Who knows. It depends how aggressively things get flagged. There isn't some approved list of topics. For the media, it seems they will generally not report on anything that makes academia or public health look bad. Why is that, probably a mix of pragmatism and ideology. Journalists have become heavily dependent on academics to give more or less any story a patina of "expert" authority, often on short notice. They cannot /will not bite the hand that feeds them. As for why they won't criticize public health - progressivists have built into their own identity that the state is basically good, basically competent and public health organizations are a great source of abstract progress. To admit that things they did have gone badly wrong would undermine their whole worldview. If you work for the NYT you don't become a libertarian overnight, especially because journalists who did work there and reported on the public health negatively got fired (e.g. Berenson, Wade...).