Cecilia, the link worked to some extent.

I think your point about salacious media coverage is right. I described it a couple of days ago as "media cannibalism". A self-consuming blood lust - which sounds more dramatic than it is.
It's almost second nature in a competitive market, but why do we buy into it?
Have any of the journos who've been covering this story actually 'fessed up to that?
So far the Dom Post hasn't, so the rest of us are playing catch up.