Since it was women who set up the FR daily thread re this trial and mostly women who followed it (certainly the bulk of women I communicated with) I would say it was the pain of watching a beautiful child coldly killed by her mother and abandoned in a swamp.
And since women are brilliant multi-taskers we can also mourn our troops and mourn Caylee as well.
I think the cartoon is aimed at “The Media” and is not meant too literally.
BTW, did you hear that they changed the release date again. Now it is the Sunday after next Wednesday! Geeesh! They can’t even get that right.