...and more important matters that have much wider reaching and serious effects are also happening all the time, usually to much less fanfare.

Does this prove anything more than that the public at large is more interested in easy to digest, shocking/flashy headlines? Not really. You can cherry-pick examples almost any week and the idea of orchestrated distractions can look true through the lens of confirmation bias, but that's not very useful, especially if your point is that it makes the charges against Cosby look dubious.

To be clear, irrelevant is in quotes because this isn't actually irrelevant, especially if it gets us to shine a light on the way that accusations by women against men are so easily dismissed by so many people