First, being in the news does not necessitate something actually being newsworthy. Between celebrity gossip, the latest fads, and shallow exchanges between career politicians that impact no one and everybody will forget a couple of days later, a very small part of the news is actually newsworthy.
Second, something happening routinely does not mean it's necessarily not worth reporting. Especially for things that happen routinely but shouldn't -- and whose routine re-emergence invokes outrage. The shooting of a black person walking/driving around by cops is very much a routine affair (as they have been 100s of incidents), but it continues to get media coverage and rightly so.
