1) The article is from February. OLD. Which leads to my second point...
2) The news doesn’t cover it because there is no change or development in the story. Every thing about it is the same as it was when this was written in February. There is no continuing drama about whether or not the murdering SOBs did it or not (they did) or whether or not they’ll be convicted (they will be). It was a gruesome killing, but frankly those are a dime a dozen in the US (there’s 300 million of us, after all), not to mention what’s happening in wars all around the world.
There is no reason for it to be in the spotlight night after night except for those with some weird macabre fascination with the crime.
So why did we hear about the James Byrd killing for over a year? It was an open and shut case. They caught the thugs that committed the crime and prosecuted them. Yet, Dan Rather went back to the town where it happened for something like three years doing updates on how the black community there was “healing”, whether or not the whites there felt sufficiently guilty, and so on. Byrd’s daughter was invited to speak at the Democratic convention.
Why do we still hear about Matthew Shepherd all these years after his murder? Because homosexuals are a protected class, and so are some racial minorities. The media go bananas over politically incorrect crimes. However, there aren’t that many of them, so they have to milk the few they get for all it’s worth. And they desperately jump the gun sometimes due to their desire to find such crimes, so we get fiascos like the Duke case.
Sorry, but you know as well as I do that if a young black couple had been subjected to the horror that happened in Knoxville at the hands of whites, we’d get daily updates and the usual suspects would be prowling the streets looking for signs of “racism” in the white community. Nancy Grace would be live on the scene, and so would Geraldo. The New York Times would have a reporter camped out there with daily major reports.
A movie would have been made about the Wichita atrocity by now if the races had been reversed.