There was a similar case here in the UK last year, where a court blocked the transmission of an "investigative reporting" type documentation about a series of gangland murders in Glasgow, because one of the men whose activities were "exposed" in the TV programme was about to go on trial, and the court ruled that there was a justfyable concern that the jury could be influenced by seeing the TV show.
This kind of thing seems reasonable to me; in cases where someone is about to go on trial, there strict rules governing newspaper reporting of the case, too.
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