media - Two crises and a WTO-meeting, too much to handle

The environmental crisis in Heilongjiang has turned into a political crisis after a vice-mayor of Jilin killed himself and the central government called off a high-end investigation. The social crisis in the Guangdong village of Dongzhou has turned into a stale-mate while protestors and WTO-delegates are screaming for their piece of the limited attention Western media can give to this part of the world.
Asiapundit reports about an anonymous journalist blogger who complaints about the sudden lack of interest in the Jilin benzine crisis. Major Chinese media had prepared stories, but they have been shelved, including a major investigation, after a suicide of an involved vice-mayor in Jilin. This step gives free way too all kind of rumors:

The 100-ton-or-so benzene and nitrobenzene in the Songhua, according to government sources there, was not accidently flushed down the sewer but DELIBERATELY LEAKED. Again, no guarantee for the authenticity of this information but in the absence of true, open news coverage rumor would have to do, for here and for now.

Howard French summerized yesterday the latest on the shootings in Dongzhou and signals that the Chinese media again have been ordered to tone down, after the commander who ordered the shooting was detained. An act that could only be done with involvement of president Hu Jintao himself or people close to him.
The HK bloggers continue to follow the WTO-meeting and get much press coverage, even though according to all WTO-standards is seems a pretty dull get-together.

It seems too much for most traditional media, three major events in a row. Well, for this weblogger it certainly is.