Let's not make it look like "more than a dozen" articles is even close to enough coverage. If this was an extradition hearing for somebody to be extradited to China or Russia for the same reasons, there would be hundreds of articles for each hearing session.
If you believe in the rule of law, there is substantial evidence that assange broke the laws of multiple countries, so you may just as easily be on the other side of this debate.
If you believe in the rule of law you would want the potential war crimes investigated long before you would imprison the journalist that exposed them.
The media can, and is, covering the hearing. There are more than a dozen news articles about this hearing by major newspapers including the NYT.