Amy Winehouse died in her apartment in July of this year. I remember going online to check my facebook and reading “RIP Amy Winehouse” on a friend’s page.
I switched pages and googled it to see what information that I could find. I didn’t go to a news source because I knew that serious news sources like CNN and Fox News couldn’t possibly concern themselves with the death of a junkie celebrity when there were actually stories worthy of coverage in the world.
The coverage could not comment on the cause of death until the autopsy was complete. There were candlelit ceremonies paying respect to the artist.
As soon as I saw that she was dead, I knew that it was from drugs or alcohol. I know a couple of lines to one of her songs and that is the extent of my knowledge of Amy Winehouse other than the irony of those couple of lines that I did know. “They tried to make me go to rehab, and I said ‘no, no, no.’”
After the initial shock wore off, there was no more coverage of her death or autopsy report. I had to dig online to find that the coroner labeled her death due to “alcohol intoxication.” There was never another story after the story of her death. The media does not bring its stories full circle.
If you had dug a little deeper, I know there were some followups, and there's no doubt that major outlets like CNN covered it. I agree with you main point, however: the news media generally could certainly do a better job of following up on the aftermath of major news events.
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