It is very confusing to me about how big the case really is. There was very little media coverage from mid-July until early September, with the indictment. When the indictment comes in, it is breaking news/top story on every major news website. The attention dies down within a couple of days. That is what I do not get. The media seems to cover the case, when they do, like it is the case of the decade, yet will not give it the amount of coverage necessary to truly make it so.
However, I guarantee that if the trial is highly publicized, the media will act like the case got years of constant pretrial coverage. The weeks/months of nothing happening will be erased. So in a way, the amount of pretrial attention is irrelevant, because it will be rewritten depending on how big the trial is.
I have a theory that the case was supposed to be the "story of the summer" for CNN, but with Russia/Ukraine, MH17, Israel/Palestine, ISIS erupting in the news, that would no longer be possible.