BTW, this could also help explain our differences
Living on the other side of the world, I have had, fortunately, almost no exposure at all to the sort of "media feeding frenzy" referred to in this article. That's an important difference between your experience of this affair, and mine. And that makes your POV more understandable, and at the same time should also make clear, why it is easy for me to be completely immune to the "celebrity factor" here. The story over here is virtually non-existent.