As stated earlier we all know Zimmerman did wrong to exit his vehicle and chase the deceased, doubly wrong since the 911 dispatcher told him not to. What bothers me is the attempt at the press to color the issue by posting so many pictures of the deceased that are obviously dated ...
Well that's simple. Race riots sell newspapers.
Look at Rodney King. The beating he got was wrong, no matter how you cut it, but an unedited verison of the tape that showed him resisting and grappling with the police before hand would have had a higer "SSDD" factor for everyone watching. Shrug... LA Burned, Reginald Denney took cinder blocks to the head, Korean shopkeeps were armed with Mini-14's and AR's on the rooftops...
but the ratings were awesome! As the dead-tree editions circulation figures collectively circle the drains, and come nearer to the bitter end every year, and probably for awhile after as the revenue streams and staffing models for the electronic editions stabilize, I fully suspect this will get worse before it gets better.
Add to that the economy is down. We've got a likely one-term black POTUS, and weather wise, summer seems to have started two months early across much of the U.S.... I suspect the summer of 2012 will look a lot more like a banner year in the 1960's for news and unrest than it will the boring and sedate "history has ended" 1990's.