The media don't report much "general" incompetence. If there's a link that this was done as cover for malfeasance or graft then it would be newsworthy.

As it is, it's an eye-glazingly complicated story about government accounting regardless of how big the numbers are. It's hard to imagine the number of hours necessary to fact check the article not to mention finding experts in the field to break it all down.

Oh come on. A publication like the Economist lives for stuff like this, as a story of this magnitude would have lots of knock on effects.

Daily press does tend to go after blow-by-blow stuff but you're selling the media short. The entire Trump collusion thread right now is itself crazy complicated and it's in the news daily.