It doesn't surprise me a bit. As far as I'm concerned the media has destroyed a lot of high profile court cases and police investigations.
Too much media with too little to report leads to the Rosie O'Donnel, Donald Trump fight on Hannity and Colmes instead of on the E network where it belongs and the Berger story is forgotten.
Media aside, this family (read: son of Mr. Kim) did not exercise proper care and judgement from the get-go.
First clue should have been the open gate on a forest service road. And if that did not do it, the fact that the road was narrowing on both sides and still gaining elevation. And finally, you don't go into these environments - summer or winter - without a full tank of gas. Day or night.
Sorry for the family. But this was a case of pure arrogance to take his wife and little girls off into the woods to take a short-cut to the beach. Maybe he did not understand his arrogance at the time. But were he alive now he would have realized, and he isn't.
There's plenty to report, in Sudan, Somalia, Egypt, Iran, Kashmir, Russia, China, Phillipines, Mexico, Venezuela.
But most reporters and editors are too ignorant to understand what's happening in the world around them, and too busy trying to figure out Mt Hood, Rosy+Trump, Nudie pictures on a beach, and other useless titilations.