Faced with intense media competition, no news station wanted to be without this breaking news; some channels even handled it like a soap opera, spending 30 minutes or more of each hour-long news program reporting on Lee family tidbits totally unrelated to the case, and even preambling reports with "Episode XX of the Rail-Tampering Case."
在媒體激烈競爭下，沒有新聞台敢「獨漏」這則新聞，有的頻道甚至將它當成連續劇炒作，每節整點新聞裡花 30 分鐘以上時間，報導與案情無關的李家瑣事，甚至打上搞軌案「第 X 集」的字樣，並在缺乏任何實據的狀況下，自行揣測捏造各種案情可能。