A whole lot of things went wrong for Trayvon Martin on February 26th. In the days that followed, other things went wrong, too. One of the biggest failures was that it took several weeks for the local and the national newspapers to cover this topic. 

The New York Times didn't pick up this story until three weeks later. The first story in the New York Times appears on March 17th. The Orlando Sentinel wrote a short article on February 29th, but with major elements of the story missing. Finally, on March 8th, the Sentinel starts to give this story more attention. A couple more stories were written that week. But it wasn't until three weeks after Trayvon was killed, that the local newspapers really began to cover this story. 

I heard about this case, not from the mainstream media, but from Holly Robinson, an entertainment reporter, that I follow on Twitter.