I disagree. This is precisely what Obama wanted. In fact the worst-case scenario for Obama was for this to go to trial, and the public would see the truth in a court of law.
With this, they can still paint the narrative as they wish, despite the findings of the grand jury, and they got their riot, which they wanted.
It’s not as if there was any outcome which wouldn’t suit his purposes. The Zimmerman case proves, to anyone willing to see, that Big Journalism will dismiss and ignore inconvenient truth. There is only one conceivable way to stop it, and that is to sue the Associated Press and its members (joint and several liability) for promoting riot against the public interest. That way they wouldn’t have anyone else to play their circular finger pointing game.And sue them for triple damages under RICO, because this isn’t an isolated incident - this is systematic. They did it to Zimmerman, of course, and they did it in this case, and the Duke Lacrosse case, and in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth case - but in all cases the nominal target is just a symbol of the evil white Republican man.