http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/busine...ntion.html?_r=1

 Quote:
For the first 10 days after Martin's death, the story was covered by only the Florida media. On March 8, 2012, CBS News, acting on a tip it received from the network's local bureau in Atlanta, Georgia, obtained an exclusive interview with Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton that was broadcast on CBS This Morning.


So, really, this was local only for almost two weeks. Plenty of time for the facts to come to light. Trayvon Martin was an unarmed African-American child, and Zimerman is an ex-cop with a history of spousal abuse and racial discrimination that stalked this boy, even after the cops told him not to, and then murdered him. It's easy to understand, really. The facts are all there.