Media reporting certainly wasn't perfect (and probably wide range between outlets), but in reverse I've seen enough cases over the past years where things which

Media reporting certainly wasn't perfect (and probably wide range between outlets), but in reverse I've seen enough cases over the past years where things which were easily provable news suddenly are claimed to have been "suppressed" just because people don't remember it. Not remembering is to be expected, especially during the phases where there was a few new things about COVID every week (and people quite reasonably were kind of overwhelmed with news - keeping up with everything COVID was hard if you even tried). But that doesn't mean it wasn't reported or that information isn't available if you want to look it up. And that's not even touching the topic of people just don't liking what was reported, which you'll also find across the entire spectrum. And everyone of course wants their current pet cause to be the thing dominating all the headlines.