Apparently, there was a court proceeding going on this week for Cecilia Zhang murder case.
What's also apparent was that there's a total media blackout this time.
Based on my crude research, if there is a media competition to cover this case this week, Toronto Star would easily win with a total of about 1,100 words written. That is, for the whole week's development, plus the case history, the descriptions of both the victim and the accused.
As for the CanWest chain of newspapers and The Globe and Mail? Apparently, nobody was assigned to cover this story this week from either of these two newspapers. We thus do not even know how the publication ban came about.
And for CBC? I heard CBC Radio run a brief item at its 5:00AM broadcast this morning. Then it was dropped. -- Actually, it did so at least on two days of this week.
Is this story not news worthy any more?
Remember the intensity of media coverage when she was first found missing?
Remember the intensity of media coverage when her body was found later?
Remember the intensity of media coverage when a suspect was charged last summer?
Oh well, I guess somebody, or somebodies, does not want the public to remember her any more.
Why?
Because she had served her purpose, which was, tragically ironically, to generate news headlines on October 20, 2003. Or, to borrow a professional parlance, "to change the channel".
Is there anything more sickening than this?????
