They are, it's just that the place where you can look at objective and comparable data (graduation vs job offers, salaries, terms for initial offers, etc) at sc

They are, it's just that the place where you can look at objective and comparable data (graduation vs job offers, salaries, terms for initial offers, etc) at scale is business, tech, etc and other similar industries. For press coverage it's also a matter of what the big industries of the era are. Currently it's tech, in the 80s it was things like the mining companies - Apple is also one of the single largest companies in the world so when its CEO says something that's always going to get press coverage.