Mainstream media starts to catch up on Jena... why so slow?

Finally. On Monday, NPR's All Things Considered broadcast a story on the Jena 6. Other than coverage of the first trial of one of the defendants, Mychal Bell, by a print outlet, The Chicago Tribune (whose Jena stories now seem to be unavailable), this is the first mainstream media coverage of the Jena story by a major US news media outlet...