Exactly. Look at any other case like Paula Deen, or the McCann Cases or N. Holloway. They squeeze as much juice out of the stories as possible. Some are crimes deserving of _some_ attention, some are just stupidity, but they don't deserve as much coverage as they get.

Yet, other than taking advantage of people's insatiable appetitive for salaciousness, scandal and the travails of the rich or pretty or the gruesome there were no conspiracies or 'invisible hand' of the [TLA agency] coordinating any of these news cycles.