Possibly because a couple of slides blowing and a bird strike that required an engine change are on a slightly different scale to flap tracks fairings falling into some back yard,
You know that, and *I* know that, but my point was, for a media who usually love to sensationalise everything that goes wrong on flights, they were surprisingly quiet on these (even the nosewheel incident got very light coverage compared to some happenings at QF that were of comparable severity)
Although they did mention the Jetstar turnback, I suspect it was only because they're a Qantas subsidiary
My point about the media 'agenda' is that they clearly see a wounded animal and kick it when it's down. If they cared to actually do some research they'd have seen some far worthier stories in the charter airline segment over the last few years... but as usual, if it's not a big jet that just missed a school... it doesn't sell papers!