If a journalist would explain these news to the masses AND the news has a way to reach the masses.
These days these kinds of news do not make it to broadcasted news and most people do not watch the old broadcasted news.
The news currently get people attention from the news feed on Android and Apples phones. Those feeds recommend only the kind of content you usually interact with. No many people gets tech articles. And you can even argue that there is some extra filters on what news get on the feed in first place.