Had this happened between two Trayvons on the street of Chicago no one would have given a rats ass, the asshole in the WH included.
and FOX/Greta wouldn't have flown to Aruba for the natalie halloway thing, if she wasn't a pretty blonde girl that would deliver brutal ratings and interest.
Look at it this way, 33... if a story has any possibility to win over the NON-news watchers to be glued to courtTv or FOX or MSN for a few weeks, they RUN with it.
ANY time you see some bullshit story taking up more headline than it should, ask yourself "Is this story designed to pull in viewers that don't normally watch this channel?"
also, please flush any notion that the media has any "duty" to cover any story of any importance. They'll put a war or major debt crisis on the backburner for a baby panda bear stuck in a wishing well ANY day. They're entertainment channels and profit-driven. To disagree is to be naive.