Media stars give up on Peterson case

From the San Francisco Chronicle

Close your eyes and transport yourself back, for a moment, to a more hormonal time.

You’re a senior in high school, you invite all the cool kids over because your parents are out of town and only the dorks from the Physics Club show up.

That’s been the mood at the Scott Peterson double-murder trial for the last three months. What was anticipated to be a star-studded journalism affair has slowly turned into Just Another Trial, populated mostly by the same old faces from the local media.

Since pretrial motions began at the Redwood City courthouse in February, there’s been no Geraldo Rivera, no Greta van Susteren and no Dominick Dunne. (A few sort-of-familiar faces from CNN and MSNBC have shown up sporadically — the celebrity journalism equivalents of free acts on the county fair concert schedule.)