Why did Pellicano conviction get so little attention?

What gives?

Nightline did an interesting segment on Anthony Pellicano and his practices back on April 4th, and yet didn't even mention the conviction in passing last night.

It seems like everyone in the national media is groggy/jet-lagged/sleepwalking, and already on summer vacation judging by their attention span.

Locally, I guarantee that nothing about the Ben Kuehne story will be mentioned by South Florida media over the weekend.

Shocker! The Miami Herald has run nothing on the Kuehne situation since April 19th.

If you didn't already know it, Julie Kay of the South Florida Daily Business Review is easily one of the top ten reporters in South Florida.
Yet, sadly most people have never heard of her, even while Channel 10's Dwight Lauderdale, who is retiring next week after 32 years at WPLG, is being given huzzahs and props for simply staying put so long.

Nice guy to be sure, but nobody can point to any actual reporting he's done in eons that's made a tangible difference.
It's bewildering.

I say that as someone who grew-up down here with him and the late Ann Bishop at Channel 10, when they had the number one news program in the state -by far!
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Defamer gets it just right!

Remembering Anthony Pellicano: The End is as Good as it Gets
http://defamer.com/391050/remembering-anthony-pellicano-the-end-is-as-good-as-it-gets

New York Observer
Vanity Fair's Burrough: 'Everyone in Hollywood Got an Advance Copy of That Article'
by Matt Haber
April 7, 2008
http://www.observer.com/2008/vanity-fairs-burrough-everyone-hollywood-got-advance-copy-article

Los Angeles Times
Private eye to the stars is guilty
By Carla Hall and Tami Abdollah
May 16, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-pellicano16-2008may16,0,5288725.story?track=ntothtml

See also:
LA Observed
Anita Busch links Pellicano and Times
By Kevin Roderick
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/anita_busch_links_pellica.php

New York Times
Investigator to the Stars Is Convicted in Wiretaps
By David M. Halbfinger
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/business/16pellicano.html

Associated Press
Hollywood Private Eye Convicted in Wiretap Scheme
By Greg Risling
May 16, 2008
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421431859&pos=ataglance
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The National Law Journal
Miami Criminal Defense Group Rallies to Embattled Attorney's Cause
Julie Kay
May 16, 2008
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421446679

See also: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/05/16/florida-bar-group-to-honor-indicted-miami-lawyer-ben-kuehne/