(now at six stories in 3 days) Does anyone else find it weird how much press coverage the Lauren Dickason case is getting?

The top three stories on Radio NZ are about her, do we really need this much coverage?

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Yeah, agreed. I found it surprising to have by the minute updates on the court case.
No? Why wouldn't a case like this get a lot of media attention?
- They've published two stories about this on the 25th, another two on the 26th, and a fifth today.
  
  That doesn't seem over the top to you?
  
  Not really. The story shocked me when it first happened and still does.
  
  High profile cases often get daily stories plus extras for background.
  
  Also, those stories underneath the main one are there specifically because they are related. It's not like they ranked the top 3 stories and decided these were them.
- Because despite being shocking and horrifying it's not actually all that relevant to anyone other than the immediate family and the justice system. It happened, it's horrible, and we don't really need to know more till there's an outcome to the trial. The constant updating feels grotesque. She's a mentally ill murderer, not a celebrity.
  
  Yeah, I guess my perspective was that the media normally does this and so from that angle this case doesn't seem to be getting any more focus than normal.
  
  I may have missed that there is opportunity here for a discussion on if that amount of coverage should be normal.

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