At least the mainstream German media. There's a report on the Rybka controversies (Fruit-to-Rybka, and Rybka-to-Ippolit-to-Houdini) in Der Spiegel (in German, but you can see what Google Translate has done it with it, here). Nothing new, really, but as so often happens chess generally makes the news in the West only after something strange, scandalous or salacious has occurred.