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> It wasn't as if there was minute-by-minute reporting that went dark as soon as the verdict came in.

Luckey alleges that reporters were there and ready to cover it in case he lost. So there was still interest, just not interest in anything that was good for him.

> a "Goliath beats David after six year legal slog" story was never likely to be make headlines.

This is pretty much a statement of the problem right here. If your goal in reading the news is to be entertained, then it's not a problem. But if your goal is to become informed, then this bias against a certain kind of story is presenting a warped version of reality to you while pretending that it is the truth.

It's not a vast conspiracy. It's just incentives at work, but the outcome is lamentable.