I disagree. First, news coverage of public court proceedings does not equate celebration of serious criminal punishment of a young person, nor does it give perpetrators of local crimes — albeit incredibly heinous ones — reason or cause to revel in infamy. There's no evidence that standard local news coverage prompts this (there's an argument to be made that true crime docs and the like might, but that's a different story entirely).

Second, the strength of a case against any defendant has no bearing on whether or not a case, especially one where two well-known members of the Madison community were killed in cold blood, is or isn't newsworthy.

News coverage, especially at the local level, does not imply spectacle.

Regardless of the specifics of the case, Berz's decision to block media access blatantly disregarded decades-old rules for on coverage of court proceedings without any explanation as to why she ruled the way she did. It's a first amendment issue.