I'm just a bumpkin community reporter so take this with a grain of salt, but my take is that Macau just isn't hostile enough to Beijing for western press to care about.
E.g., when Hong Kong's new government banned that pro-independence newspaper, I knew editors who were salivating to run every story they could on it. We fetishize "free speech" as the ultimate public virtue, so any story about public censorship makes for a great good vs evil narrative that American readers will lap right up.
I'm just a bumpkin community reporter so take this with a grain of salt, but my take is that Macau just isn't hostile enough to Beijing for western press to care about.
E.g., when Hong Kong's new government banned that pro-independence newspaper, I knew editors who were salivating to run every story they could on it. We fetishize "free speech" as the ultimate public virtue, so any story about public censorship makes for a great good vs evil narrative that American readers will lap right up.