And that's precisely it. If you check out the news (err... tabloids I mean), they only like to report this nonsense because it's clickbait, and it works.
If they weren't reporting it, chances are no one would care about it. But since they do report it and shove it in our faces on the daily, I'm forced to sit here and wonder what in the hell is so wrong with people that they just seem to complain over the simplest little things.
First world problems I guess. Like you said, if a lot of these people lived in a less fortunate country, I don't think you'd hear a peep from them. They've have more important things to worry about other than whether or not some woman is publicly breastfeeding her child or perhaps some TV character is smoking.