Poor Jesse Dirkhising is dead, which is bad enough. Because those two accused killers are homosexual, things have become political. Conservatives like Brent Bozell , Jerry Falwell and Joseph Farah howled that liberal bias kept Dirkhising's death from getting the nationwide attention given to the death of Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming man killed for no real reason other than being homosexual.
Professional journalism demands such accusations be attributed to a specific source.
They're not giving the attention to the case they demanded others provide. It's not that it didn't exist. Due most likely to the aforementioned howling from conservatives, daily reports on the trial appeared on the Associated Press national wire. However, these ConWeb leaders do not belong to the Associated Press. Perhaps the boy has outlived his usefulness.